The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

如果不衡量影响，我们只是在猜测可持续性。

We don't inherit the oceans from our ancestors - we borrow them from our children.

书是一次你可以不离开椅子就完成的旅程。

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

你相信有人心这回事吗？我不仅仅是指那个器官，当然喽。我说的是这个词的文学意义。人心。你相信有这样东西吗？某种让我们每个人成为独特个体的东西？

文学的力量在于它使我们感到不那么孤独。

大海不拒绝各种各样的水，所以才能成就它的博大；大山不拒绝形形色色的土石，所以才能成就它的高峻；贤明的君主不嫌弃百姓，所以能够聚集众多的臣民；读书人不厌倦学习，所以能达到圣贤的境界。