There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

There is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.

I am like a wind-blown leaf, with nothing to compare to.

-- Ichiyō Higuchi

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

-- Yasunari Kawabata

I wish to die as Mori Rintaro, a man of Iwami.

-- Mori Ōgai

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

-- Murasaki Shikibu

I contain multitudes.

-- Walt Whitman

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

-- Henrik Ibsen