No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.

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

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.

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

How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell and a still one? If man is so generally less happy in the cities than in the country, it is because all these variations and nuances of sight and smell and sound are less clearly marked and lost in the general monotony of gray walls and cement pavements.

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.