"if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.

"The past is not dead; it is not even past."

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

真正的创新往往源于质疑他人视为事实的东西。