In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

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

True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst. Psychologically, I think it means a release of energy.

If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.

Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.

I am put on my best behavior, which means the same thing as the most uncomfortable behavior.

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.