His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

民主是最糟糕的政府形式，除了所有其他时不时被尝试过的形式。

不登上高山，就不知道天是多么高远；不亲临深溪，就不知道地是多么深厚。