Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.

History is a chain of wills attempting to transmit something.

-- Yasushi Inoue

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

-- Alexandre Dumas

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

-- Yasunari Kawabata

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

-- Jane Austen

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

-- Virginia Woolf

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

-- Murasaki Shikibu