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

The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.

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

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.