"Chivalry is a flower no less indigenous to the soil of Japan than its emblem, the cherry blossom; nor is it a dried-u…"

"A typical samurai calls a literary savant a book-smelling sot. Another compares learning to an ill-smelling vegetable…"

"Death for a cause unworthy of dying for, was called a "dog's death." "To rush into the thick of battle and to be slai…"

"Pilgrimages to all sorts of uncanny places—to execution grounds, to graveyards, to houses reputed to be haunted, were…"

"Tranquillity is courage in repose. It is a statical manifestation of valor, as daring deeds are a dynamical. A truly …"

"We needed no Shakespeare to feel—though, perhaps, like the rest of the world, we needed him to express it—that mercy …"

"We knew Benevolence was a tender virtue and mother-like. If upright Rectitude and stern Justice were peculiarly mascu…"

""Bushi no nasaké"—the tenderness of a warrior—had a sound which appealed at once to whatever was noble in us; not tha…"

"I admit that there may be unnecessary niceties in ceremonious etiquette, but whether it partakes as much of folly as …"

"All the sartorial ingenuity of mankind has not yet succeeded in sewing an apron that will efficaciously hide our sens…"