历史学家的任务是让死者重生。
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。
The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.
"Stories are the way we make sense of the chaos of life."
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
The footsteps of Nature are to be traced, not only in her ordinary course, but when she deviates from it in her most extravagant excursions.