All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.

- Lafcadio Hearn

It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of …

- Lafcadio Hearn

Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.

- Lafcadio Hearn

I may venture to say, loosely, that in Judo there is a sort of counter for every twist, wrench, pull, push or bend. Only the Judo expert does not opp…

- Lafcadio Hearn

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.

- Lafcadio Hearn

In order to comprehend the beauty of a Japanese garden, it is necessary to understand - or at least to learn to understand - the beauty of stone.

- Lafcadio Hearn

One thing is always wrong-always: to cause suffering in others for the purpose of gratifying one's own pleasures; that is everlastingly wrong.

- Lafcadio Hearn

But I confess that "my mind to me a kingdom is" - not! Rather it is a fantastical republic, daily troubled by more revolutions than ever occurred in …

- Lafcadio Hearn

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

- Lafcadio Hearn