我们是主人,公仆是仆人。

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

诗歌不仅仅是词语，它是音乐和沉默。

我们唯一需要恐惧的就是恐惧本身。

Je est un autre. Si le cuivre s'éveille clairon, il n'y a rien de sa faute. Cela m'est évident: j'assiste à l'éclosion de ma pensée: je la regarde, je l'écoute: je lance un coup d'archet: la symphonie fait son remuement dans les profondeurs, ou vient d'un bond sur la scène.

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.

"Every character I create is a part of myself."

在黑暗中，我们找到了自己人性的光芒。