I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they’d once belonged to the sea.

我只是在尽力过好我的生活。

The legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws to any other hands: for it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

一本伟大的书是那种让你改变的书，它给你带来对生活的新视角和对人类状况的更深理解。

真理是一个陷阱：你无法得到它而不被它得到；你无法通过捕捉真理来得到它，只有通过被它捕捉。

"I can resist everything except temptation."

"The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it."