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。
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.
The central feature of pride is enmity—enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.
The beauty of literature is that it allows us to live a thousand lives.