To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
活着是世界上最罕见的事，大多数人只是存在而已。
真正的谈话艺术不仅是在正确的地方说正确的话，而且是在诱惑的时刻不说错误的话。
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
夜晚是我的家，音乐是我的家人。
The poet's mission is to illuminate the darkness.
The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
"A great story is one that lingers in the mind long after the last page is turned."