书是一面镜子：如果一只猿猴往里看，使徒不太可能往外看。

——〈临时大总统誓词〉，1912年1月1日

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered.

有时候，我们需要的不是一碗鸡汤，而是一个巴掌。