In the realm of perception, the whole is not only more than but also very different from the sum of its parts.
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think—rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
文学的意义在于它能够让我们看到那些被忽视的生活细节。