The value of an idea lies in its practical consequences.
A mathematician is a maker of patterns, like a painter or a poet.
If I could, I would stop the passage of time.But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow.I shall never experience this moment again.
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things.
虽然熟读了《诗经》三百篇，但让他去处理政事，却办不好；派他出使国外，却不能独立地根据具体情况应对自如；这样的人，读的即使再多，又有什么用处呢？
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they’re going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
