The key to success is persistence and continuous improvement.

大陆并非永久固定，而是处于不断的变化和运动中。

"The past is always tense, the future perfect."

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt, and the profoundest wisdom to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

政府下的人的自由是拥有一个普遍适用的常规生活准则，而不受另一个人的多变、不确定和武断意愿的支配。

You can’t live in the world without an idea of the world, but it’s impossible to live in the world with your idea of the world.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

I don’t follow the rules, I make them.