生命的价值不在于我们呼吸的次数，而在于那些让我们屏息的时刻。

Society can and does execute its own mandates， and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right， or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle， it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression， since， though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties， it leaves fewer means of escape， penetrating much more deeply into the details of life， and enslaving the soul itself.

The writer’s duty is to tell the truth, even when it is uncomfortable.