If man be sensible and one fine morning, while he is lying in bed, counts at the tips of his fingers how many things in this life truly will give him enjoyment, invariably he will find food is the first one.

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

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

After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors, great presidents, heroes who change the course of history - the happiest man is still the man of the middle class who has earned a slight means of economic independence, who has done a little, but just a little, for mankind and who is slightly distinguished in his community, but not too distinguished.

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.

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted

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.