What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.

All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at another point in order to make room for others waiting below the river to come aboard.

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.