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Lafcadio Hearn

" But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations "

History , Generations

" But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved "

Happiness , Power , Earth , Heaven

" Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change "

Change , Literature

" For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete "

Education , Knowledge , Literature , Reason , English , Bible , Literary

" French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow "

World , Marriage , Public , English , Adultery , Lovers

" 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 "

Love , Poetry , Passion , Literature , English , Fiction

" 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 "

Work , Art , Time , World , May , Reality , Development

Father , Man , Duty , Wife , Woman

Poetry , Literature , Europe

Man , Fact , Marriage , Europe , Life , America