没有一个世纪,也没有一个国家曾经缺少过这样的专家,他们能够知道神祇的心思,而且也愿意表示出来。
The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.
在建构伟大事物的过程里,构想是最不重要的成分,它必须是对的构想并有好的品味,但执行与完成才是关键。
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning.