Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.

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.

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?

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

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

A cocktail party is a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no interest in.

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!