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Even in despair, man must laugh.
Neckties strangle clear thinking.
Art is both creation and recreation.
All human happiness is sensuous happiness.
The wise man reads both books and life itself.
The end of living is the true enjoyment of it.
Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.
Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters.
Creative work carries with it a form of intense love.
A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.
The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother
The only test of a soul's salvation is its inward happiness.
Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it.
An educated man is one who has the loves and hatreds together.
Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.
No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.
What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?
The fonder you are of your ideals, the greater your heartbreaks.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.
The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become.
The greater success a man has made, the more he fears a climb down.
Happiness has always seemed like a bluebird, and consists of moments.
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted
The human mind is a curious thing. It can take just so much and no more.
China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world.
I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
Only friendship which can stand occasional plain speaking is worth having.
Nobody is ever misunderstood at a fireside; he may only be disagreed with.
Of the many rights of ladies, the best should be to be considered a mother.
Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.
There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man.
He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer.
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world.
By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also.
When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.
There is more hope in a heather rose than in all the tons of Teutonic philosophy.
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.
Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.
I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.
Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body.
We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.
If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.
Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.
In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.
I am put on my best behavior, which means the same thing as the most uncomfortable behavior.
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.