There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.

By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also.

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

Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to culture.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.

Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man.

The history omankind seems like kite flying; sometimes, when the wind is favorable, we let go the string a little and the kite soars a little higher; sometimes the wind is too rough and we have to lower it a little, and sometimes it gets caught among the tree branches; but to reach the upper strata of pure bliss-ah, perhaps never.