We (the Chinese) eat food for its texture, the elastic or crisp effect it has on our teeth, as well as for fragrance, flavor and color.

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.

Neckties strangle clear thinking.

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.