She began, Truly it is a very shameful sight to see one who should be
We must save ourselves by doing what is godlike and we will become godlike.
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.
This foreign one has no fear of anything in her, although she is not beautiful as the Fourth Lady was beautiful. She does not trouble herself. She accepts as her right the interest of men. She makes n...
Then the good land did again its healing work and the sun shone on him and healed him and the warm winds of summer wrapped him about with peace.
The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members
The days of my youth are past and to a woman full grown a kiss means everything—or nothing.
The Empress Mother said with still more irritation, I cannot understand why we must have a foreign religion here when we have three good religions of our own.
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...
One would have said he was his son's servant rather than his father.
Old One, the tenant said apologetically. It is none of my business and I ought to die, but after all they are the children of your elder brother's son who after all is the first in the next generation...
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...
Just as he lived with them alive, he will live with them dead. Someday he will accept their death as part of his life. He will weep no more. He will carry them in his memory and his thoughts. His fles...
It is easy to destroy but hard to create. Remember that, when you want to destroy something. The
In these days it never came to Wang the Tiger's mind that his son's dreams might not be his own and he lived for the spring.
In the case of acupuncture, the time period must also be considered. On a fine day, the sun shining, blood in the human body flows smoothly, saliva is free, breathing is easy. On days of chill and clo...
If it were true that there could be good men among the enemy, then indeed she must still be afraid. If righteous, the white men were stronger than she reckoned, and she kept this fear hidden in her so...
I would ask my teacher a question, Yehonala said.Ask, Lady Miao replied. She was brushing fine quick strokes upon a large sheet of paper spread upon a square table which the eunuch had brought to her...
I am never better pleased than when I know a book of mine can be bought for fifty cents or, better still, for twenty-five. No people can be educated or even cultivated until books are cheap enough for...