When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind.

...you're going to find people from all over the country, everyone hungry for money and position. You won't make a name for yourself just doing what the next man does. You'll have to distinguish yourself in some way.

Every act is an expression of one's self.

The truth of the scholar, alone in his study, does not always accord with what the world at large considers to be true.

The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object--the joy of living--is not in the peak itself, but in the adversities encountered on the way up.

The world is a stone wall ... and they have put the stones so close together that there is not a single crack through which one may enter.

Oh, you crows! Feast away! What a spread! Soup straight from the eye sockets! And thick red sake! But don't have too much Or you'll surely get drunk.