As long as people overlook matters, then inferiors can, without any fear, lead an easy and peaceful life.

It is a wretched thing that the young men of today are so contriving and so proud of their material posessions. Men with contriving hearts are lacking in duty. Lacking in duty, they will have no self-respect.

If one thinks only of winning, a sordid victory will be worse than a defeat. For the most part, it becomes a squalid defeat.

There is nothing we should be quite so grateful for as the last line of the poem that goes, 'When your own heart asks.

The heart of a virtuous person has settled down and he does not rush about at things. A person of little merit is not at peace but walks about making trouble and is in conflict with all.

There is not a man who does not get senile by the time he reaches sixty. And when one thinks that he will not be senile, he is already so.

In the Kamigata area, they have a sort of tiered lunchbox they use for a single day when flower viewing. Upon returning, they throw them away, trampling them underfoot. The end is important in all things.