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.

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

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

There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others

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.

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.

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