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

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

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!

We all have obligations and duties toward our fellow men. But it does seem curious enough that in modern neurotic society, men's energies are consumed in making a living and rarely in living itself. It takes a lot of courage for a man to declare, with clarity and simplicity, that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.

The history omankind seems like kite flying; sometimes, when the wind is favorable, we let go the string a little and the kite soars a little higher; sometimes the wind is too rough and we have to lower it a little, and sometimes it gets caught among the tree branches; but to reach the upper strata of pure bliss-ah, perhaps never.

There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man.

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