Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure.

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry about the world. The world frightens me, and a frightened man is no good for anything.

I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?