There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

Know your own happiness.

To allow the market mechanism to be sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment would result in the demolition of society.

-- Karl Polanyi

The history of humanity is also a history of excavating hidden facts.

-- Seichō Matsumoto

The train came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.

-- Yasunari Kawabata

This world, I think of it as my own, like the full moon lacking nothing at all.

-- Murasaki Shikibu

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

-- Henrik Ibsen

The benefit morality gives us is economy of time and effort. The damage it does is the complete paralysis of conscience.

-- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa