心智倾向于将物体感知为组织良好的模式，而不是单独的组成部分。

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will.  

万物皆由四要素组成：地、水、火、气。

The most valuable resource we harvest from the sea is knowledge.

用责备别人的态度责备自己，用原谅自己的态度对待别人。

"We read to know we're not alone."

我认为，人的思维缺乏将已知事物联系起来的能力，这是世上最仁慈的事了。人类居住在幽暗的海洋中一个名为无知的小岛上，这海洋浩淼无垠、蕴藏无穷秘密，但我们并不应该航行过远，探究太深。