One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science， is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness， such men make this cosmos and its construction in the pivot of their emotional life， in ordered to find the peace and the security， which they cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
Insofar as a thing is in harmony with our nature， it is necessarily good.
心灵是自己的地方，它本身可以把地狱变成天堂，把天堂变成地狱。
即使鬼神不存在，这也可以用来聚集众人来欢乐，使得邻里亲近。