People of the same trade seldom meet together， even for merriment and diversion， but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public， or in some contrivance to raise prices.

突破功名利禄的束缚，突破世俗学问如考据、诗词的束缚。

The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether.

世上任何卓越的成就都缺不了热情。