Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

no one ever gossips about the virtues of others

The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.

European travellers find the Japanese a smiling race.

It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.

As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return to barbarism appalled me.

We are ... led to a somewhat vague distinction between what we may call "hard" data and "soft" data. This distinction is a matter of degree, and must not be pressed; but if not taken too seriously it may help to make the situation clear. I mean by "hard" data those which resist the solvent influence of critical reflection, and by "soft" data those which, under the operation of this process, become to our minds more or less doubtful.