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

It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.

A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.

Creative work carries with it a form of intense love.

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!

To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.

On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic temperament which is bent on seeking a perfectly useless afternoon spent in a perfectly useless manner.