A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.

O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a living and forget to play!

I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.

If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.

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

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

Of the many rights of ladies, the best should be to be considered a mother.