Purity is something that cannot be attained except by piling effort upon effort.

The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai.

As everything in this world is but a sham, Death is the only sincerity.

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.

The way of the Samurai is found in death.

Tether even a roasted chicken.

What is called generosity is really compassion. In the Shin'ei it is written "Seen from the eye of compassion, there is noone to be disliked. One who has sinned is to be pitied all the more." There is no limit to the breadth and depth of ones heart. There is room enough for all. That we still worship the sages of the three ancient kingdoms is because their compassion reaches us yet today.