The past is never dead. It's not even past.

In language， there is no one-to-one correspondence between words and the things they refer to.

To men like that, time was a surfeit, a barrel they watched slowly drain. When really, he thinks, it’s a glowing puddle you carry in your hands; you should spend all your energy protecting it.

商业的成功在于建立关系，而不仅仅是交易。

古今来世代显贵家族，无不因积德造就；天地之间第一等好人品，还是由读书培养。