人的欲望和其他激情，本质上是受到他自己控制的；他真正的困难在于，要知道何时需要加以控制，何时不需要。
The desires， and other passions of man， in themselves， are in his own power； his real difficulties are， to know when they are to be controlled， and when not.
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper.
The night is dark, and I am far from home.
The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
"The true artist is one who can find the extraordinary in the ordinary, and reveal it to the world."