The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

一切运动中的事物都必须是宁静的，不是静止的事物才应被视为宁静。

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

两条路在树林中分岔，我选着走人少的那一条，这就导致了所有的不同。

在追求真理的过程中，我们必须愿意被最简单的事实所纠正。