Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.

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

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.

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it.

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.

There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.