"The serene and blessed mood which enables us to see into the life of things: that is imaginative reason, that is the …"

"In fact, the chief end of a woman in China is not to live for herself, or for society; not to be a reformer or to be …"

"A foreign lady friend of mine once wrote and asked me whether it is true that we Chinese believe, like the Mohamedans…"

"But people will say to me, "why ask selflessness and sacrifice only from the woman? What about the man?" To this, I a…"

"[S]poken or colloquial Chinese is [...] in fact the language of a child. Now as a proof of this, we all know how easi…"

"He was a crank but not a bore, for his was a first-class mind and he had, above all, insight and depth, as no man in …"

"This may be easy to know, but it is difficult to put in practice."

"He learns to recite the classics; he sings in the clear fragrance of the old masters He explores the treasures of the…"

"It is like following a branch to find the trembling leaves, like following a stream to find the spring."

"Caught between the unborn and the living, the writer struggles to maintain both depth and surface."