You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

嗯，第一条规则是，如果你只是记住一些孤立的事实，然后试图把它们背出来，你是不可能真正知道任何东西的。如果事实不是挂在一个理论的格子架上，你就没有把它们变成一种可用的形式。

你得到的答案取决于你提出的问题。

我宁愿做一个失败的作家，也不愿做一个成功的银行家。

一个术语的非道德用法不一定告诉我们这个术语的含义。

Not for the sake of our health, though it's often presented that way, but because it's an escape from the human anthill. It's an escape from our own competition, and our own dramas. And that's why ween joy looking at glaciers and oceans, and contemplating the Earth from outside its perimeters, etc. We like to feel in contact with something that is non-human, and that is so deeply important to us.