【译文】 孔子说：“管理国家要以身做则。如同北极星，安然不动而众星绕之。”

Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.

艺术的未来在于它变得不可见的能力。

连人都不能很好地事奉，还怎么能事奉鬼呢？

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter.

我们曾有过残暴的国王，也有过愚蠢的国王。但我真不知道是造了什么孽才有了这有一个又残暴又愚蠢的国王。