发愤研究学问，常常忘记吃饭，一旦有所收获便又高兴地忘记了忧愁，连自己的渐趋衰老也没有感觉到。

侦探小说是高尚心灵的正常消遣。

There is only one road in the world that no one but you can take. Where does it lead? Don't ask, just walk.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it, an apostle is unlikely to look out.

"The stream of thought flows toward survival."

The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.