真正的天才在不完整面前会颤抖——通常宁愿保持沉默,也不愿说一些不完全符合它应该说的话。
Denying or deflecting a compliment is rude. Accept it with thanks, even if you believe it is not deserved.
The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security, is so powerful a principle that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations.
The material has its own intelligence.