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.
So Wang Lung sat, and so his age came on him day by day and year by year, and he slept fitfully in the sun as his father had done, and he said to himself that his life was done and he was satisfied wi...
She is tired to the heart, Ying muttered. She is tired because in this great house all feed on her, like suckling children.
One would have said he was his son's servant rather than his father.
Nations, like individuals, can only learn by their own individual experience. Yul-chun
Learn the good that you can of the foreign people and reject the unsuitable.
If a superior man undertakes something and tried to lead,He goes astray.But if he follows, he finds guidance.It is favourable to find friends in the West and South, and quiet perseverance brings good...
IT WAS HER FORTIETH birthday. Madame Wu sat before the tilted mirror of her toilet case and looked at her own calm face. In her mind she was comparing it with the face she had seen in this same mirror...
I should like to penetrate your mind with my own, he said. I should like to pierce the mysteries of your soul.
Happiness was waiting to be chosen.
French is the most beautiful, he said, and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.
For generations fathers had watched earth and sea.
Families are only a means of exploitation,' he declared. 'Parents treat children as capital assests and children wait for parents to die so that they will have an unearned income.''So children spy on...
Do not test the measure of his love for you by the way he expresses his body's heat. He is not thinking of you at those times. He is thinking of himself.
But the important lesson which he taught me was that if one would be happy he must not raise his head above his neighbor’s. He who raises his head above the heads of others, Mr. Kung said, will sooner...
As for their child, I am moved in two ways. He will have his own world to make. Being of neither East nor West purely, he will be rejected of each, for none will understand him. But I think, if he has...
And then she grew uneasy and full of gloom and thought to herself that if the child were joy yet was it a new gate for sorrow to enter by, too, and so is every child...
All scientific effort must now be concentrated in the area of defence (sic). We have learned our lesson. We, the most civilized of people, have been misled by our own sages through the last four thous...
Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
Man and after him two others, one nicknamed the Hawk, because he had a very curious hooked