A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.

- Kenko Yoshida

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.

- Kenko Yoshida

The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.

- Kenko Yoshida

Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.

- Kenko Yoshida