I do not know when it is that the joy fades out of school for most children, so that they end not only by hating school but even worse, by hating books, and this is grave indeed, for in books alone is...
He had collected from every place where he had hid his little stores of gain and he had borrowed all he could, and he could not even have had this except by bitter, frugal living.
For this Mary’s words were not surcharged with oversubtle meaning. No, she spoke them out swiftly and with sharp clearness and each word had its own weight and meaning and no more, good tools of her m...
As life has proved, it is true that a woman's body is more important than her mind. She alone can create new human creatures. Were it not for her, the race of man would cease to exist. Into her body,...
We need to restore the full meaning of that old word duty. It is the other side of rights.
Once the "what" is decided the "how" always follows. We must not make the "how" an excuse for not facing and accepting the "what."
All things are possible until they are proven impossible.
It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.
She began, Truly it is a very shameful sight to see one who should be
We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage—and indeed perhaps more.
Somewhere in the periphery of his mind and consciousness was the warning that Russia must be watched. For hundreds of years Russia had wanted Korea for its seacoast, its treasures of metals and minera...
Some do it for a good deed for the future, that by saving lives they may get merit in heaven, and some do it for righteousness that men may speak well of them. Nevertheless it is a good deed for whate...
Never reproach him with his own weakness, for then he will become wholly weak. Never let him feel that but for you he would be useless, for then he will indeed become useless. You must search for the...
It is but another war somewhere. Who knows what all this fighting to and fro is about? But so it has been since I was a lad and so will it be after I am dead and well I know it.
If you would only stop thinking, you would be much happier.
I wish to produce the fruit of my brain for my country’s good. A mere dog may fill the earth with the fruit of his body!
I reminded myself that time takes care of many things. Asia had thought me that.
He lived in the rich city as alien as a rat in a rich man's house that is fed on scraps thrown away, and hides here and there and is never a part of the real life of the house.
Attachment, Buddha had said, is the cause of grief.
And roots, if they are to bear fruits, must be kept well in the soil of the land.