

“There are, if I may so say, three powerful spirits, which have from time to time, moved on the face of the waters, and given a predominant impulse to the moral sentiments and energies of mankind. These are the spirits of liberty, of religion, and of honor." —HALLAM, Europe in the Middle Ages.”
― Bushido, the Soul of Japan
― Bushido, the Soul of Japan

“Chivalry is itself the poetry of life." —SCHLEGEL, Philosophy of History.”
― Bushido, the Soul of Japan
― Bushido, the Soul of Japan

“the boyish desire of the small Britisher, Tom Brown, "to leave behind him the name of a fellow who never bullied a little boy or turned his back on a big one.”
― Bushido, the Soul of Japan
― Bushido, the Soul of Japan

“Bu-shi-do means literally Military-Knight-Ways—the ways which fighting nobles should observe in their daily life as well as in their vocation; in a word, the "Precepts of Knighthood," the noblesse oblige of the warrior class.”
― Bushido, the Soul of Japan
― Bushido, the Soul of Japan
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