20 Quotes by Inazo Nitobe

Filial Piety, which is considered one of the two wheels of the chariot of Japanese ethics – Loyalty being the other.

Knowledge becomes really such only when it is assimilated in the mind of the learner and shows in his character.

If there is anything to do, there is certainly a best way to do it, and the best way is both the most economical and the most graceful.

Tranquillity is courage in repose.

When the delicious perfume of the sakura quickens the morning air, as the sun in its course rises to illumine first the isles of the Far East, few sensations are more serenely exhilarating than to inhale, as it were, the very breath of beauteous day.

You are to be proud of your enemy; then, the success of your enemy is your success also.

Indeed, valour and honour alike required that we should own as enemies in war only such as prove worthy of being friends in peace.

Human life has sorrow;” “They who meet must part;” “He that is born must die;.

There are, if I may so say, three powerful spirits, which have from time to time, moved on the face of the waters, and given a predominant impulse to the moral sentiments and energies of mankind. These are the spirits of liberty, of religion, and of honor.” – HALLAM, Europe in the Middle Ages.