Action and knowledge are not obstacles to each other.
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
小说是生成意义的机器。
身份高贵的人,不应该欺凌地位卑贱的人;腰缠万贯的人,不应该对穷人傲慢无礼。否则的话,他的荣华富贵就很难持久了。
It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
——《在神户国民党交通部欢迎会的演说》(1913年3月13日)