All human happiness is sensuous happiness.

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

Let him cry whoever feels like crying, for we were animals before we became reasoning beings, and the shedding of a tear, whether of forgiveness or of pity or of sheer delight at beauty, will do him a lot of good.

I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.

There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.