"Writing is a way of making sense of the world, of finding patterns in the chaos."

追求知识是一段永无止境的旅程，每一个发现都为新的问题打开了大门。

The power of the state should be used to protect the rights of the individual, not to suppress them.

I don’t need anyone to complete me. I complete myself.

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

让自己振作起来的最好方式是尝试让别人振作起来。