~である (formal copula)

Old age is an island surrounded by death.

The pains of love are far sweeter than any other joy.

A good book is the best of friends — the same today, tomorrow, and forever.

The next day at the newspaper office, he drew a bread roll with a dachshund inside. Not a dachshund sausage — a [real] dog, a dachshund inside.

What matters is not what you read but how you read it.

The eyes are the window to the soul.

A contented heart is a perpetual feast.

It's usually the islanders who can see the mainland most clearly.

Hōryū-ji is the oldest wooden building in the world.

She is more important to me than my own life.

She's shy, which makes me like her even more.

Despite its importance, the role of sleep remains a mystery.

It's easy enough to say "I was scammed," but there's no denying that you're the one who fell for a "too-good-to-be-true story."

The book's shortcoming is that even though the married author advocates not marrying, it lacks persuasiveness.

There's an expression 'once-in-a-lifetime grand occasion,' and this is exactly that.

But even before being crushed by the Reagan administration and the Supreme Court, OSHA was a farce.

By the way, the reason fish gills are bright red is that, like lungs, many capillaries are gathered there.

Life is despair. That's how I see it.

It is a most excellent thing that your curiosity is so vigorous.

After all, folks like the author here — who has no confidence in their own patience — would give up after just two or three hours.

Naruhodō's law firm is 'one of the world's leading law firms in the energy sector'.

You see the lightning before you hear the thunder because light travels faster than sound.

Far too many people are indifferent to politics.

Male peacocks have brilliantly colored tail feathers.

Despite being wealthy, he's not happy.

Besides being a famous physicist, he's also a great novelist.

The only truly useful knowledge is that which teaches us to seek the good and avoid the bad.

The problem is that he's broke.

The problem is not so much the purpose of education as how to carry it out.

The problem lies in the fact that it is perception that bridges this necessary gap.