To Ancient Chinese Fancy, The Milky Way

The Subject Of Finnish Poetry Ought To Have A Special Interest For The Japanese Student, If Only For The Reason That Finnish Poetry Comes More Closely In Many Respects To Japanese Poetry Than Any Other Form Of Western Poetry.

There Are Two Methods For The Literary Study Of Any Book - The First Being The Study Of Its Thought And Emotion; The Second Only That Of Its Workmanship. A Student Of Literature Should Study Some Of The Bible From Both Points Of View.

Any Idealism Is A Proper Subject For Art.

The Tea Ceremony Requires Years Of Training And Practice ... Yet The Whole Of This Art, As To Its Detail, Signifies No More Than The Making And Serving Of A Cup Of Tea. The Supremely Important Matter Is That The Act Be Performed In The Most Perfect, Most Polite, Most Graceful, Most Charming Manner Possible.

One Thing Is Always Wrong-always: To Cause Suffering In Others For The Purpose Of Gratifying One's Own Pleasures; That Is Everlastingly Wrong.