One thing is always wrong-always: to cause suffering in others for the purpose of gratifying one's own pleasures; that is everlastingly wrong.

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.

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

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.

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

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

Woo the muse of the odd.