所以富贵的人极其奢侈，二孤儿寡妇却受饥挨饿，虽然想天下不乱，也不可能。国君若真的希望天下太平而不希望天下大乱的话，如果要吃喝，就不能不节俭。 

I do not know what I may appear to the world， but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore， and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary， whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

阅读的艺术在于明智地跳过。

我宁愿活得好像有上帝，死后发现没有，也不愿活得好像没有，死后发现有。

一旦与男人平等，女人就高高在上。