Pai-Chang

In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness…

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.

Liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all the management of human affairs.

The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?