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

In fact,I believe the reason why the Chinese failed to develop botany and zoology is that the Chinese scholar cannot stare coldly and unemotionally at a fish without immediately thinking of how it tastes in the mouth and wanting to eat it. The reason I don't trust Chinese surgeons is that I am afraid that when a Chinese surgeon cuts up my liver in search of a gall-stone, he may forget about the stone and put my liver in a frying pan.

A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far.

It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.

When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.

All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.