The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.

None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.

If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.

you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.

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.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Life is stronger than death.