"My name is Chariton, son of Aphrodisias, and I am clerk to the attorney Athenagoras. I am going to tell you the story…"

"Of Ephesus, historian. [He wrote] Ephesiaca [Ephesian Histories]; it is a love story in 10 books about [H]abrocomes a…"

"Anything is true, is essential to the national."

"Beautiful, moral world, created in an angelic way."

"With the acceptance of the doctrine of evolution, old forms of thought crumbled; new ideas everywhere arose to take t…"

"After the first recognition even by theology of physical evolution, it was easy to predict that the recognition of ps…"

"With the massacre of Shimabara ends the real history of the Portuguese and Spanish missions. After that event, Christ…"

"My friends are much more dangerous than my enemies. These latter – with infinite subtlety – spin webs to keep me out …"

"Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under a lava flood of taxes and frauds …"

"Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: "Well, who are the best people…"