There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized

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.