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!

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

We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.

-- Zeno of Citium

Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

-- Zeno of Citium

Excess benevolence becomes weakness. Excess righteousness becomes rigidity.

-- The 'One-Eyed Dragon' of northern Japan who carved

I came as dew, I vanish as dew — all that I was, all I achieved at Naniwa, is a dream within a dream.

-- The peasant who became ruler of all Japan

An action committed in anger is an action doomed to failure.

-- The founder of the Mongol Empire who created histo

弱虫は、幸福をさえおそれるものです。綿で怪我をするんです。

-- Osamu Dazai