To repay evil with kindness is the proof of a good man; a superior man blames himself, a common man blames others.
To do good, to love justice, to grant that all men had an equal right to a pleasant life, these things Kung Chen believed in, and believing, he did all he could to perform his belief.
This is one of the main reasons I wished to come to America. I wished to see with my own heart if it would be different and it is not. Even here in New York, and I understand it is true of every major...
The feet bear the burden of the body, the head the burden of the mind, and the heart the burden of the spirit,
The country she had taken for granted as her own, where she had been born, whose language alone she spoke, had rejected her and despised her.
The Koreans have always been and still are a people of superb creative talents, but King Sejong, in the thirty years of his rule, became a deathless legend.
Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself
She rose and washed and dressed herself and braided her hair freshly, and having made her room neat for the day she went into the peach-tree garden. It lay in the silence of the spring morning. Under...
Lucinda’s foolish words stuck in his mind like a flung dagger he could not pull out. They’d be in him always, maybe.
Learn the good that you can of the foreign people and reject the unsuitable.
It was strange how these poems came to him nowadays, the distillation of his private emotions, of his disillusionment, of his solitude, of his yearning for a future in which, nevertheless, he could no...
If the belly is full, she said, if we could know that it would always be full, men would be idle and laugh and play games like children, and then we would have peace and happiness.
If life were known one moment ahead, how could it be endured?
I will spend the rest of my life assembling my own mind and my own soul. I will take care of my body carefully, not that it may any more please a man, but because it houses me and therefore I am depen...
And what was worship except trust and hope that life and death had meaning because they were created and planned by Heaven?
Introversion at least if extreme is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.
This anxiety to keep his father from anger was wearisome to him.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where I renew my springs that never dry up. ~Pearl Buck
You are free when you gain back yourself, Madame Wu said. You can be as free within these walls as you could be in the whole world. And how could you be free if, however far you wander, you still carr...
When the rich are too rich there are ways, and when the poor are too poor there are ways. Last winter we sold two girls and endured, and this winter, if this one my woman bears is a girl, we will sell...