Be scrupulously truthful, even when truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.

这是最好的时代，这是最坏的时代。

The general will is always right， but the judgment which guides it is not always enlightened.

Literature is a fire that burns within us, a fire that consumes and purifies, a fire that illuminates and warms.

The ideas of economists and political philosophers， both when they are right and when they are wrong， are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men， who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence， are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.