All Good Work Is Done

The Proverbial Philosophy Of A People Helps Us To Understand More About Them Than Any Other Kind Of Literature.

I Often Imagine That The Longer He Studies English Literature The More The Japanese Student Must Be Astonished At The Extraordinary Predominance Given To The Passion Of Love Both In Fiction And In Poetry.

The Tea Ceremony Requires Years Of Training And Practice ... Yet The Whole Of This Art, As To Its Detail, Signifies No More Than The Making And Serving Of A Cup Of Tea. The Supremely Important Matter Is That The Act Be Performed In The Most Perfect, Most Polite, Most Graceful, Most Charming Manner Possible.

My Friends Are Much More Dangerous Than My Enemies. These Latter - With Infinite Subtlety - Spin Webs To Keep Me Out Of Places Where I Hate To Go, - And Tell Stories Of Me To People Whom It Would Be Vanity And Vexation To Meet; - And They Help Me So Much By Their Unconscious Aid That I Almost Love Them.

Perhaps There Is An Idea Among Japanese Students That One General Difference Between Japanese And Western Poetry Is That The Former Cultivates Short Forms And The Latter Longer Ones, Gut This Is Only In Part True.