文学的衰落表明一个民族的衰落。这两者走下坡路的时间是齐头并进的。
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
The traditional disputes of philosophers are， for the most part， as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.