Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.

To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man.

If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind.

It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even while it grows abundantly and healthily.

There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written.

By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors.

The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic.