An educated man is one who has the loves and hatreds together.

Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters.

Happiness has always seemed like a bluebird, and consists of moments.

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

Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.

Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it.

India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as well as in philosophy, and that she inspired Boccaccio, Goethe, Herder, Schopenhauer, Emerson, and probably also old Aesop.