The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he turn to the novel.

——《驳保皇报书》，1904年1月

译文：君子用才能行善，小人用才能作恶。司马光警示：才能无善恶，关键是德行引导。