Lafcadio Hearn
Lafcadio Hearn
Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, known also by the Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo, was an international writer, known best for his books about Japan, especially his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. In the United States, Hearn is also known for his writings about the city of New Orleans based on his ten-year stay in that city...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth27 June 1850
CountryJapan
Lafcadio Hearn quotes about
great-day useless examination
A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
ohio cities new-orleans
Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become a study for archaeologists...but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.
motherhood literature morality
It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.