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

Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.

No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before.

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.

How sweet Japanese woman is! All the possibilities of the race for goodness seem to be concentrated in her.