Eicho

The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it. Theres another Chinese saying about their country which is much more modernit dates only from the fourth century. This is the saying: The tail of China is large and will not be wagged. I like that one. The British democracy approves the principles of movable party heads and unwaggable national tails. It is due to the working of these important forces that I have the honour to be addressing you at this moment.

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one’s clothes.

Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

During my life, I have had a few nightmares which happened to me while I was wide awake.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.