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

If man be sensible and one fine morning, while he is lying in bed, counts at the tips of his fingers how many things in this life truly will give him enjoyment, invariably he will find food is the first one.

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!

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

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at another point in order to make room for others waiting below the river to come aboard.

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.