The power of mathematics comes from its ability to abstract and generalize, turning specific problems into universal truths.

The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel is the one bright book of life.

Art is not a mirror to reflect reality, but a hammer to shape it.

三十五岁是一个非常有吸引力的年龄；伦敦社交圈内满是这样好多年一直保持三十五岁的女人，她们可以自由地挑来选去。

永远不要成为房间里最聪明的人；如果你是，那么你进错了房间。