“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”

“Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.”

“All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.”

“Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.”

“Pleasure can be supported by an illusion, but happiness rests upon truth.”

“Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of good acting in f...”

“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in mens minds, perhaps f...”

“It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”

“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives deligh...”