Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

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.