Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
The poor perpetually sell their time cheaply, yet can never buy it back.
Every song is a piece of my soul.
艺术作品是与无限的对话。
现代建筑最大的问题是失去了文化的根。
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
才能不足的人计谋多，见识不够的人事情多，威仪不足则使人怨怒多，诚信不够则言语多，勇气不足则辛劳多，明细不够则多察查，事理不足则多辩论，情分不够则多礼仪。
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.