大自然造就了人们在身体和心智的才能上如此相等，以至于尽管有时候可能会有一个人明显在身体上更强壮，或者在思维上更敏捷，但总结一切，人与人之间的差异并不是如此重大，以至于一个人可以因此而主张自己有权享受任何另一个人也可以同样主张的权益。
Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind， as that though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body or of quicker mind than another， yet when all is reckoned together the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.
生活就是要抓住机会并为之努力。
文学的本质是捕捉人类经验的瞬息万变，并通过文字赋予它们永恒性。
有人说我有唱诗班男孩的声音，却长得像女校长。