A team of horses cannot overtake a word that has left the mouth. - Arthur Waley

Anyone with a good classical education could learn Chinese by himself without difficulty.

To the European poet the relation between man and woman is a thing of supreme importance and mystery. To the Chinese, it is something commonplace, obvious—a need of the body, not a satisfaction of the emotions.

You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here; for I am weary of this frail world's decay.