Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than bad, or can confer perfection on the whole of which it is a part.

Love is a slippery eel that bites like hell

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

All human activity is prompted by desire.

European travellers find the Japanese a smiling race.

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.