I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning.
创新不仅仅是创造新事物；而是让现有的东西更好地运作。
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
【释义】读书不要拘泥于书上或迷信书，应该加以分析，辨证地去看问题。
When you are young, you think you will be happy when you are older. But then you get older and you realize you were happy when you were young.