Lafcadio Hearn Quotes

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorr...

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapi...

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be ...

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, p...

Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds...

The Shadow-maker shapes forever.

The poet or the story-teller who cannot give the reader a little ghostly pleasure at times never can...

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the B...