"Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over."

The future belongs to those who can imagine it differently.

 试图指导私人如何使用他们的资本的政治家，不仅会使自己背负起极不必要的责任，还会行使一种权力，它不能被信任交给任何单个个体，甚至不能被信任交给任何理事会或议会，而且这种权力在愚蠢和自负到足以自认为有资格行使它的人手中最为危险。

Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.

有喜怒哀乐之情却没有发作，这是从凡人之心直接追溯到道德之心，使人们存心修养；虽未发生但却有喜怒哀乐的表现，这是由道心指出人心的缺欠，要人们反省改正。