描述自然景色，也暗喻人应顺应自然。

老年人相信每一件事物；中年人猜疑每一件事物；青年人什么都懂。

If oxen and horses and lions had hands and could paint with their hands and produce works of art as men do, horses would paint the forms of the gods like horses, and oxen like oxen, and they would make their bodies in accordance with the form that each species itself possesses.

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied； better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

写作是探索生命奥秘的一种方式。