A mind needs books like as word needs a whetstone.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

心智通过练习而非被动吸收而成长。

The whites came to this land for a fresh start and to escape the tyranny of their masters, just as the freemen had fled theirs. But the ideals they held up for themselves, they denied others.

良好的教养在于隐藏我们对自己较佳的评价，以及隐藏我们对他人较差的评价。