I entreat fresh visions from the painters. Be lavish with your vermilion to portray the mountains in the spring.

It is in the nature of things that some people should be unlucky enough to get their heads chopped off.

I entreat fresh visions from the painters. Be lavish with your vermilion to portray the mountains in the spring.

To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.

I thought: hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.

Imagine an iron house without windows, absolutely indestructible, with many people fast asleep inside who will soon die of suffocation. But you know since they will die in their sleep, they will not feel the pain of death. Now if you cry aloud to wake a few of the lighter sleepers, making those unfortunate few suffer the agony of irrevocable death, do you think you are doing them a good turn?

If we want to work out a policy for the present, we must examine the past and prepare for the future, discard the material and elevate the spirit, rely on the individual and exclude the mass.