Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.

He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer.

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

So much of unhappiness, it seems to me, is due to nerves; and bad nerves are the result of having nothing to do, or doing a thing badly, unsuccessfully or incompetently. Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do. True happiness comes to those who do their work well, followed by a refreshing period of rest. True happiness comes from the right amount of work for the day.

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.

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.

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.