Hello! Sorry I’m not home, but I have gone to rescue my friends who were captured by Bowser! - Super Mario World - Yoshida Kenkō

There are innumerable instances of things which attach themselves to something else, then waste and destroy it. The body has lice; a house has mice; a country has robbers; inferior men have riches; superior men have benevolence and righteousness; priests have the Buddhist law.

All is unreality. Nothing is worth discussing, worth desiring.

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