Beyond the castle walls, the city lay in almost total darkness. Above, the moon was pallid and misted. It was a brooding, darkling night. And, it seemed to him, doom walked the heavens.
A new era requires clear thinking about the meaning of honor.
A fine moon rode the sky and he could see the dark marks on its face and he wondered absently if the dark was land and the rest ice and snow, and why the moon was there, and who lived there.
Only the emperor among three hundred millions is allowed to use vermilion ink. Imagine that. If Queen Victoria said, ‘From now on, only I am allowed to use vermilion,’ as much as we love her, forty th...
Love is like the sea, sometimes calm and sometimes stormy; it’s dangerous, beautiful, death-dealing, life-giving. But never permanent, everchanging.
You live by the lash and you'll die by it.
You don't know for certain about God until you're dead.
You can find friends in manure, sometimes, my son.
Yabu-san’s a violent man with no scruples whatsoever. He honors nothing but his own interests. Duty, loyalty, tradition, mean nothing to him. His mind has flashes of great cunning, even brilliance. He...
Patience means restraining yourself. There are seven emotions, neh? Joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate. If a man doesn’t give way to these, he’s patient.
Love is a Christian word, Anjin-san. Love is a Christian thought, a Christian ideal. We have no word for 'love' as I understand you to mean it. Duty, loyalty, honor, respect, desire, those words and t...
Like every serious student, follow the most important law for all students: repay your teacher by making it your duty to surpass him!
I can't use hope against swords.
How could such a pretty girl become known as the Hag, she wondered. It must be hateful to become old in face and body when you’re young at heart and still strong and tough—so unfair for a woman.
And damned nomads in Mesopotamia have again cut the telegraph—another expeditionary force is being organized to deal with them once and for all!
Why should we fight them when their own greed and stupidity’s destroying them. Eh?
Lust is pressing, something must be done about it.
There is no escape now. For anyone.''Be patient. The sun has not yet set.''I have no confidence in this sun, Mariko-san.'He reached out and touched her face. 'Gomen nasai.
Do I want to bed her? Sure. So mount a campaign, maneuver her into bed without commitments. Don’t play the game of life according to female rules, all’s fair in war and war. What’s love anyway? It’s l...