Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
民主是最差的一种政治制度，除了所有那些其他被实验过的政治制度之外。
To write is to make one's self a echo of the world's soul.
死亡疾于风，它带走的一切将一去不返。
解析：比喻立志用功需要循序渐进。