I must confess that I never could see any beauty in her. Her face is too thin; her complexion has no brilliancy; and her features are not at all handsome. Her nose wants character; there is nothing marked in its lines. Her teeth are tolerable, but not out of the common way; and as for her eyes, which have sometimes been called so fine, I could never see anything extraordinary in them.

解释：最上等的是树立德行，其次是建立功业，再次是创立学说，虽然逝去但业绩长存，这就叫做不朽。

人比自己想象的要坚强。

预测未来的最好方法就是发明它。

知识的最大敌人不是无知，而是知识的幻觉。