God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular.

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

Chinese were bornwith an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qualities ripened in them.... If ever I am homesick for China, now that I am home in my own country, it is when I discover here no philosophy. Our people have opinions and creeds and prejudices and ideas but as yet no philosophy.

I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.

There is no beauty without order.

The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal.

Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.