Know your own happiness.

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

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

I fight my enemies with swords, not with salt.

-- The 'Dragon of Echigo' — a Sengoku-era warlord whose devotion to righteous warfare and Buddhist faith made him Japan's most paradoxical military figure

Can you call yourself human if you forget your debts of loyalty and pursue only selfish gain?

-- Called 'the greatest warrior in Japan' by his enem

I shall dedicate myself utterly, giving everything until death claims me.

-- The legendary chancellor and military strategist of the Shu Han kingdom during China's Three Kingdoms period

A general's greatest weapon is the trust of his soldiers.

-- The Byzantine Empire's greatest general

Happiness may be something like gold dust sinking to the bottom of a river of sorrow, faintly glimmering.

-- Osamu Dazai

To love is simply to be always beside that person.

-- Shusaku Endo