Beside the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. - Lin Yutang

Познаваше точно качествата, които могат да направят някого висш чиновник – качества, напълно различни от тези, които могат да направят някого човек. Така, както вървяха работите по онова време, един добър човек не можеше да стане чиновник; деен човек не можеше да стане чиновник; нетърпелив човек не можеше да стане чиновник; честен човек не можеше да бъде чиновник; учен човек не можеше да стане чиновник; много умен човек не можеше да бъде чиновник; чувствителен или съвестен човек не можеше да бъде чиновник; много смел човек не можеше да бъде чиновник.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.

I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mellower, its colours richer, and it is tinged a little with sorrow and a premonition of death. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor of the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and is content. From a knowledge of those limitations and its richness of experience emerges a symphony of colours, richer than all, its green speaking of life and strength, its orange speaking of golden content and its purple of resignation and death