Woo the muse of the odd.

As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.

The tea ceremony requires years of training and practice ... yet the whole of this art, as to its detail, signifies no more than the making and serving of a cup of tea. The supremely important matter is that the act be performed in the most perfect, most polite, most graceful, most charming manner possible.

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.

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.

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

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