试图指导私人如何使用他们的资本的政治家，不仅会使自己背负起极不必要的责任，还会行使一种权力，它不能被信任交给任何单个个体，甚至不能被信任交给任何理事会或议会，而且这种权力在愚蠢和自负到足以自认为有资格行使它的人手中最为危险。
The statesman， who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals， would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention but assume an authority which could safely be trusted， not only to no single person， but to no council or senate whatever， and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
奥林匹克运动会是为了世界，所有国家都必须被接纳参加。
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
The best way to understand contemporary art is to look at lots of it.
对时机的把握是天才的标志。
礼义廉耻，可以用来要求自己，不可用来要求别人。要求自己则能少犯过失，要求别人则难以与人和睦相处，难以与他人相处就不合乎处世之道。所以君子只严格要求自己，小人则对别人求全责备。