Quotes by Kenko, Yoshida

Ambition never comes to an end. >>

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold i >>

The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touchi >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading . >>

Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of >>

A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in >>

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations -- such is pleasure beyond compare.

Kenko, Yoshida