No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.

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

Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.

On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic temperament which is bent on seeking a perfectly useless afternoon spent in a perfectly useless manner.

The most bewildering thing about man is his idea of work and the amount of work he imposes upon himself, or civilization has imposed upon him. All nature loafs, while man alone works for a living.

When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.