Love truth, but pardon error.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

——回答清华学生“国民党施行的，是否俄国的主义？”，1924年2月9日

格言是智慧耐用的替代品。

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.