一本好小说告诉我们关于其主人公的真相，而一本坏小说告诉我们关于其作者的真相。

我只知道，我画画是因为我需要，我画任何经过我脑海的东西，不考虑其他。

The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country.

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

Love is the poetry of the senses.

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.