The Shadow-maker Shapes Forever.

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.

There Are Two Methods For The Literary Study Of Any Book - The First Being The Study Of Its Thought And Emotion; The Second Only That Of Its Workmanship. A Student Of Literature Should Study Some Of The Bible From Both Points Of View.

But I Confess That "my Mind To Me A Kingdom Is" - Not! Rather It Is A Fantastical Republic, Daily Troubled By More Revolutions Than Ever Occurred In South America.

The Highest Duty Of The Man Is Not To His Father, But To His Wife; And For The Sake Of That Woman He Abandons All Other Earthly Ties, Should Any Of These Happen To Interfere With That Relation.

To Ancient Chinese Fancy, The Milky Way Was A Luminous River, - The River Of Heaven, - The Silver Stream.