故事就像咒语，它们有魅惑和改变的力量。

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

出自《海国图志·卷首》。地气和天时变化了，那么历史的体例也应随着时代的变化而变化。

History is, above all else, the creation and recording of that heritage; progress is its increasing abundance, preservation, transmission, and use.

"The truth is not always what we want to hear, but it is always what we need to know."

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.