O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a living and forget to play!

Of the many rights of ladies, the best should be to be considered a mother.

However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated into reality, like seeds germinating underground, sure to sprout in their search for the sunlight.

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.

India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as well as in philosophy, and that she inspired Boccaccio, Goethe, Herder, Schopenhauer, Emerson, and probably also old Aesop.

He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer.