A proof of really great art is that it is generally true – it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable. Lafcadio Hearn Read Quote
The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man – that is to say, the strongest and cleverest – is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person. Lafcadio Hearn Read Quote
Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was. Lafcadio Hearn Read Quote
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. Lafcadio Hearn Read Quote
One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index. Lafcadio Hearn Read Quote
Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man’s life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it. Lafcadio Hearn Read Quote
It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found – indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese. Lafcadio Hearn Read Quote
It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality. Lafcadio Hearn Read Quote
Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles. Lafcadio Hearn Read Quote
In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development. Lafcadio Hearn Read Quote
