真正的艺术家宁愿让妻子挨饿、孩子赤脚、七十岁的老母为生计操劳，也不愿做艺术以外的工作。
The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
在我们的内心深处被唤起的，就是那个久远的背景——古老的人类心理模式，它们源于遗传而非后天习得，我们从业已模糊的往日世代继承了它们。
The historian must be a poet and a philosopher.
能正确指出我缺点的人，是我的好老师；能赞成又能鞭策我的人，是我的好朋友；谄媚又阿谀奉承我的人，是害我的贼寇。
The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition， when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security， is so powerful a principle that it is alone， and without any assistance， not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations.