A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.

I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mellower, its colours richer, and it is tinged a little with sorrow and a premonition of death. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor of the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and is content.

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.

When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.

I am put on my best behavior, which means the same thing as the most uncomfortable behavior.

Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.