我不擅长当英雄，但如果这意味着我能成为你的男人，我会试试。

The novel is a great discovery: far greater than Galileo's telescope or somebody else's wireless. The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

翻译：描绘了工匠们来自四面八方，他们制作的器物则流通天下的繁荣景象。

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other.

没有人能在相当长的时间里，对自己戴一副面具，对众人戴另一副面具，而最终不困惑于哪一副才是真实的。