The best stories are those that make us question ourselves.
读古人的著作,与贤能的人交往,最忌讳轻率地表示附和赞同,也不能够轻率地表示异议。之所以会犯这两种过失,都是由于心中缺乏主见,做学问时就掺杂有趋炎附势的成分,不是曲意逢迎便是虚伪矫饰。
唯一交到朋友的方法就是自己先成为朋友。
我们只有生活一次,所以要活得充实而真实。
"The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are."