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.

Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.

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

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

Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.

I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.