Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.

Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become a study for archaeologists...but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.

Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

The more you wish to be, the wiser you are; while the wish to have is apt to be foolish in proportion to its largeness.

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.

The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.