世界是一本美丽的书，但对那些无法阅读它的人来说几乎没有用处。
The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.
The historian’s task is to understand the past, the novelist’s to make it live.
俄罗斯的命运写在它农民的脸上。