Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.

All human happiness is sensuous happiness.

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

There is a great probability that our loss of capacity for enjoying the positive joys of life is largely due to the decreased sensibility of our senses and our lack of full use of them. All human happiness is sensuous happiness.

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

I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mellower, its colours richer, and it is tinged a little with sorrow and a premonition of death. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor of the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and is content.

The end of living is the true enjoyment of it.