The most interesting ideas are heresies.

忙于追求天理的人，对人的欲望必定淡薄。忙于私事的人，处理公务必然粗心，追求虚饰外表的人，内在之心必定单薄。

教育的功能是教人深入思考和批判性思考。

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the objet of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have cought happiness without dreaming of it.

农业的成功不仅仅是播种，而是培养与土地和依赖它的人的关系。