If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.
I regard the discovery of one’s favorite author as the most critical event in one’s intellectual development.
Much as I like reasonable persons, I hate completely rational beings. For that reason, I am always scared and ill at ease when I enter a house in which there are no ash trays.
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
There is a great probability that our loss of capacity for enjoying the positive joys of life is largely due to the decreased sensibility of our senses and our lack of full use of them. All human happiness is sensuous happiness.
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man.
I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
Those who are wise won’t be busy, and those who are too busy can’t be wise.
Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that kind of philosophy is sound and healthy.