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.