Reputation is an idle and most false imposition: oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
名誉是一件无聊的骗人的东西；得到它的人未必有什么功德，失去它的人也未必有什么过失。
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication in design.
"The unsaid, for me, exerts great power."
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
"世界是一场游戏，但规则不公平。"
I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space.