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

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.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.

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.

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.

When we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop off people's heads.