Through these seventeen years of your life I have had this hour of your marriage in mind. In everything I have taught you I have considered two persons, the mother of your husband and your husband. Fo...
This scroll, five hundred years old and more, had been inspired by her favorite, the great Wang Wei, master of landscape art, who had painted the scenes from his own home, where he lived for thirty ye...
Peter groaned loudly. Sonia Pan! She's ugly.Mris. Liang would not yield. Ugly girls can be fixed now. It is not like before. And she is very good. She does not waste money.It would be no use for her t...
People everywhere do not concern themselves much beyond the common round of everyday, and this is the chief problem for a democratic government, whose success depends upon an informed and responsible...
Leah was more than beautiful. She was filled with some spirit, a high quality, which Peony admired and did not understand. The Chinese said of her, She is heaven-good. They meant that her goodness was...
In silence they lay close, without passion, but closer than passion could bring them they lay close.
I do not say this is a decree, she wrote, her beautiful writing brushing the page with firm yet delicate strokes. Let it be greeting and invitation, a hope that we may meet again with quiet hearts and...
I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of ev...
He had long been her favorite, yet every eunuch knew that the favor of a ruler is less stable than sunlight in early spring. At any moment it can be withdrawn, and as soon can a eunuch’s head tumble f...
Can one spit on a smiling face? he inquired; or he said, Vengeance cannot last a night’s sleep.
The relationships between the five elements. What are the five elements? They are wood, fire, earth, metal, water. These create, and also destroy, each other....On the side of creation, wood creates f...
The Western contingent and took the two leaders captive, and then seized all who were with them. The flag was torn and stamped into the dust, the captives were imprisoned and put to torture for their...
Demands the utmost in wisdom, in attack, in endurance. Violence is simple and easy, it is the sword of the stupid and dull-witted, and it always leaves chaos. To carry on a positive revolution without...
Contempt for himself that a small piece of land should seem so important. Why, when he had poured out his silver proudly before the agent the man had scraped it up carelessly in his hands and said, He...
Why should we hate them? Because ours is the only true civilization! Even in science -- consider that we invented the sternpost rudder twelve hundred years before the Europeans did! Fore-and-aft sails...
We are compelled to choose, he sometimes complained, between the savagery of Communism and the vulgarism of America.
Now, as they were all looking at the new moth, she, too, went to look at it. It was of a creamy yellow color, like the yellow of the lemon called Buddha's Hand, and it had long black antennae. These q...
It was the secret of her power in this house that she never allowed her will to be felt as absolute. She gave time and the promise of an end, and then she used the time to shape events to her own end.
It is easy to destroy, but it is hard to create. Do not destroy what your brother creates.
Fresh tadpoles coming out in the spring should be washed clean in cold well-water, and swallowed whole three or four days after menstruation. If a woman swallows fourteen live tadpoles on the first da...