We are to remember that we are not to take anything with us out of this world, and that it is how we have conducted ourselves here that will matter in the end.

将决策交给那些对决策错误并不承担任何代价的人——很难想象出一个比这样做更加愚蠢和危险的做法了。

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

作家是灵魂的工程师。