The writer must be a perpetual outsider, a critic of all orthodoxies.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

你的工作将占据生活的一大部分，真正满意的唯一方法是做你认为伟大的工作。