One foul sentence does more hurt than many foul examples. For these do but corrupt the stream；the other corrupt the fountain.

I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.

有时候最难的事就是什么也不做。

History has neither the desire nor the capacity to make men better or worse; it merely records what they have been and what they have done.

文学毫无用处，正因如此它不可或缺。