"There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal insufficiency to the world, and the other is when we feel the world's mortal insufficiency to us."

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

The secret to success? There is no secret—just hard work and persistence.

读书人如同国家的宝物，儒生就像宴席上的佳肴一样，值得珍重。