The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.

Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.

One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.

I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

Psycholog­y is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.