"Life is too important to be taken seriously."
人生太重要，不能太当真。
I write to understand as much as to be understood.
所有法律最初都是以习惯和民众信仰的方式形成的，即通过默默运作的力量，而非立法者的任意意志。
捍卫英语纯正性的问题在于，英语就像妓院里的妓女一样纯洁。我们不只是借用词汇；有时，英语会追着其他语言进入小巷，把它们打晕，然后从它们的口袋里翻找新词汇。
Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing.
伟大的事业通常是在巨大的风险中完成的。