Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. It had come out of the earth, this silver, out of his earth that he ploughed and turned and spent himself upon. He took his...
Oh, there is a loneliness which befalls me now and then and it is something more than death.
Nations, like individuals, can only learn by their own individual experience. Yul-chun
It is not poverty that is to be heared, but the lack of balance between riches and poverty.
I should like to penetrate your mind with my own, he said. I should like to pierce the mysteries of your soul.
How can school help you with the land? he asked.An old grandfather leaned out of the shadows to make answer. Learning clears the mind, he said, and books open the spirit of man to heaven and to the ea...
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...
Andre had been telling her an ancient legend of the fall of man into evil. It came about, he said, by the hand of a woman, Eve, who gave man forbidden fruit.And how was this woman to know that the fru...
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 was well with the land and when all was well with the land then everything was well.
There is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity.
Man and after him two others, one nicknamed the Hawk, because he had a very curious hooked
And when he was weary he lay down upon his land and he slept and the health of the earth spread into his flesh and he was healed of his sickness.
With increasing passion she loved beauty, for beauty, she told herself, and only beauty, was pure and good and worthy of her love.
Why must this happen to me? To this there could be no answer and there was none. When I knew at last that there could never be an answer, my own resolve shaped into the determination to make meaning o...
What shall I do? she asked in a small voice. Forget your own self, he said.But all these years, she urged, I have so carefully fulfilled my duty.Always with the thought of your own freedom in your min...
Well, and you may have lived in the courts of the Old Lord, and you were accounted beautiful, but I have been a man's wife and I have borne him sons, and you are still a slave.
We were a proud people. We lost our country. Our only hope for return was to keep ourselves a people. The only hope to keep ourselves a people was to keep our common faith in one God, a God of our own...