Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children.

... For such as truly love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.

The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty

On a moonlit night, after a snowfall, or under cherry blossoms, it adds to our pleasure if, while chatting at our ease, we bring forth the wine cups.

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.

The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.

In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth