Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace， easy taxes， and a tolerable administration of justice.

在科学中，就像在生活中一样，重要的事情很少是简单或显而易见的。

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived.

旅程就是目的地。

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks.

"History is not just about events, but about the people who lived through them."

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.