"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility."

"To be a writer is to be interested in everything."

如果你收养了一只饥饿可怜的狗，并且让它舒适顺利，它将不会咬你，这便是一个人与一只狗之间最主要的差别。

质量不是一种技术，而是一种哲学。

Concerning the gods, I cannot know either that they exist or that they do not exist, nor what form they might have, for there is much to prevent one's knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the shortness of man's life.