People of the same trade seldom meet together， even for merriment and diversion， but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public， or in some contrivance to raise prices.

The past is not for living in; it is a well of conclusions from which we draw in order to act.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

作品是在与观看者的关系中才得以完成的。

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.