The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited.

Open the doors to all. Let the children of the rich and the poor take their seats together and know of no distinction save that of industry, good conduct, and intellect.

Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also.

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.

We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries.

The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.

Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.

In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things.

If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.

Two things are desired in order that intercourse may be had: First, that a minister or agent be allowed to reside at the capital. Second, that commerce between different countries be freely allowed.

If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

If she had learned anything in the past weeks it was that there was enough to be ashamed of in the course of a messy human life without being ashamed of loving someone.

Jesus Christ is our spring board to promotion and prosperity.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

If you look at all the pictures of women in magazines, everybody's got a forehead that looks like a billboard. Completely blank.

You can't replicate walking 94 days through the wilderness by yourself with a really heavy pack until you do it.

Whoever makes me unhappy for a day, I will make suffer a lifetime.

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.

None of us can predict when the causes we support will capture the public imagination, and our once-lonely quests become popular crusades.

Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair

I think I can finally say I am at my most confident and comfortable out there, physically.