The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.

文章的极致境界，能够通达神明，穷尽天地，变化古今，而无法捉摸。

最重要的是能够思考，能够观察，能够判断你所看到的事物。

文学研究归根结底是对人性的研究

经常静坐思考，来收拢思想；减少饮酒色欲，来清理思想；摒除嗜好情欲，来修养思想；体味古人教训，来警戒思想；悟察至理名言，来明确思想。

人或物体散发出的光环与他们的肉体一样是他们的一部分。

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath, to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

光是上帝的画笔，每时每刻都在描绘世界。