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.

I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.

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

If man be sensible and one fine morning, while he is lying in bed, counts at the tips of his fingers how many things in this life truly will give him enjoyment, invariably he will find food is the first one.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

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

When we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop off people's heads.