Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams. - Arthur Waley

Nothing in the world is difficult,' said the Patriarch, 'it is only our own thoughts that make things seem so.

Though the snow-drifts of Yoshino were heaped across his path, doubt not that whither his heart is set, his footsteps shall tread out their way.

To the European poet the relation between man and woman is a thing of supreme importance and mystery. To the Chinese, it is something commonplace, obvious—a need of the body, not a satisfaction of the emotions.