The most profound truths are often the ones we take for granted.

War is an ugly thing， but not the ugliest of things； the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

"The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding."

我们都在阴沟里，但仍有人仰望星空。