Цитаты из книги Peony

“If there is one thing I hate above another it is a woman who hints in and out and around something that she has in her mind and will not speak it out.”

“Long ago he had comprehended that hers was a pleasant little mind, not deeper than a cup, and he must not pour it too full. He had measured it exactly and they never quarreled.”

“They were hated because they separated themselves from the rest of mankind. They called themselves chosen of God.”

““But she only wants me to learn the Torah from the Rabbi,” David broke in.Kao Lien went on, “Then you will look at all the world and all humanity through its narrow window.””

“He often wondered why, when he was a man inclined only toward happiness for everyone, including himself, he should be so often in circumstances that could not bring happiness for anyone, least of all for himself.”

None on earth can love those who declare that they alone are the sons of God.

“She had been so pretty when she was young that it had taken Kung Chen some years to discover that she was stupid.”

“To do good, to love justice, to grant that all men had an equal right to a pleasant life, these things Kung Chen believed in, and believing, he did all he could to perform his belief.”

“Ezra had inquired once as to his faith in God, and Kung Chen had replied calmly, “If there is a God and He is what you say, He will be too sensible to ask me to believe in what I have not seen.””