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.

All of man’s work is a bloody business. That fact, today, is considered foolish, affairs are finished cleverly with words alone, and jobs that require effort are avoided. I would like young men to have some understanding of this.

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.

A samurai will use a toothpick even though he has not eaten. Inside the skin of a dog, outside the hide of a tiger.

Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man.

There are few people who will make mistakes with fire after having once been burned.

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.