French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.

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

People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break.

All birth is unwilling.

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be.

To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.