The value of a mental process lies not in its composition, but in its consequences for survival and flourishing.

书是一次跨越时间的对话。

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.

The only thing I fear is God.

"I think it should be called a lie because a pig is not like a day and people do not have skeletons in their cupboards."