不论你怎么看待历史，历史都会在你身上留下痕迹。

I'm drawn to a lovely quote by St. Augustine in "The City of God," where he says, "It's a sin to judge any man by his post." In modern English that would mean it's a sinto come to any view of who you should talk to, dependent on their business card. It's not the post that should count. According to St. Augustine, only God can really put everybody in their place; he's going to do that on the Day of Judgment, with angels and trumpets, and the skies will open. Insane idea, if you're a secularist person, like me. But something very valuable in that idea, nevertheless.

To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller， is to lay a tax on industry and economy； to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.

从更糟到更好的改变也并非没有不便。

"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself."