Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the objet of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have cought happiness without dreaming of it.

生物的美不在于组成它的原子，而在于这些原子如何被组合在一起。

The mind， both in so far as it understands， and in so far as it imagines， is passive.

The truth is not always what it seems, and sometimes it is better not to know it.

在沉默中找到答案。

我是女权主义者，但我认为浪漫对我这一代人来说已经有点被剥夺了。我认为人们在小说中与之联系的是这种压倒性的、无所不包的爱的想法——它比其他任何事物都更重要和特别。