In a way, I've got some bad news, particularly to anybody who's come to Oxford from abroad. There's a real problem with snobbery, because sometimes people from outside the U.K. imagine that snobbery is a distinctively U.K. phenomenon, fixated on country houses and titles. The bad news is that's not true. Snobbery is a global phenomenon; we area global organization, this is a global phenomenon. What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you, and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

"The novel is a mirror that reflects the complexities of human existence."

小说是一种印象，不是一种论证；它是生活的一种印象。

希望处于高官厚禄的人可以让贤，财物多的能够分给穷人。 

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Mathematics is not just about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.