You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

The natural price of labor is that price which is necessary to enable the laborers, one with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.

To write is to explore the boundaries of the self.

幸福的秘诀是自由，而自由的秘诀是勇气。

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.