自然状态有一种自然法规来管理它，这使每个人都有义务，而这种法则就是理性，它教导所有愿意咨询它的人...没有人应该侵犯他人的生命、健康、自由或财产。

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

读古人的著作，与贤能的人交往，最忌讳轻率地表示附和赞同，也不能够轻率地表示异议。之所以会犯这两种过失，都是由于心中缺乏主见，做学问时就掺杂有趋炎附势的成分，不是曲意逢迎便是虚伪矫饰。

Words are like shadows, and shadows are like words: they say nothing, they only repeat what we want to hear.

可持续发展不是一种选择，而是现代经济中生存的必要条件。

我不怕冒险，因为我知道那是成长的方式。