But is there anything more displeasing than tasteless luxury? Sufficiency is grateful, but superfluity is nothing but offence.
I thought that Americans buy things because they love to buy, not because they have to buy.
Meriken jin has to study the high art of concealing.
The brown people look upon the scattering of things (however costly they be) as lower than barbarity. Japs believe in the sublimity of space.
Isn’t it delightful to sit on the new matting of a Japanese guest-room? Its fresh whiteness used to cure my headache.
Isn’t it taste to place just one seasonable picture on the tokonoma?
So many a Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Smith called.
They surrounded me.
I asked myself whether they paid a visit to Mother Schuyler or to me.
They incessantly threw the following questions at me: