Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

我不是那种会让我的忠诚动摇的人。

Attention is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought.

The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether.

To understand the future, one must first understand the past.

你必须愿意失败，愿意犯错，并不断尝试。