君主对于有才能的贤良之人应当抬举，让他处于尊位，富贵绵长；对于没有能力且无德的人应当废弃，让他贫困低贱，成为受驱使的奴仆。

我一生都是一个自私的人，虽然原则上并非如此，但行动上却是。

"A well-written biography is a bridge between the past and the present."

我尝试利用我的平台传播积极和善意，因为这个世界需要更多这样的东西。

I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning.

最先进的农业系统仍然依赖于最基本的要素：健康的土壤。