The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of the nonessentials. - Lin Yutang

When one's thoughts and experience have not reached a certain point for reading a masterpiece, the masterpiece will leave only a bad flavor on his palate.

The moment a student gives up his right of personal judgment, he is in for accepting all the humbugs of life

The best social philosophies do not claim any greater objective than that the individual human beings living under such a regime shall have happy individual lives. If there are social philosophies which deny the happiness of the individual life as the final goal and aim of civilization, those philosophies are the product of a sick and unbalanced mind.