Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy.

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a God or not. The atheist is a religious person. He believes in atheism as though it were a new religion.

不管赢得这世界不是失去它。反正它是个无聊的世界。

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

一八一四年，俄、奥、普联军兵临巴黎城下，理工学校学生要求参战。后来，这句名言被刻在巴黎理工学校梯型大教室的天花板正中心，一直激励着该校师生奋发好学。

The labor which it would require to make a single one of these guns by hand would exhaust the patience and perseverance of any ordinary workman.

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

当你想要改变时，你不可能取悦所有人。如果你真的取悦了所有人，那说明你的进步还不够大。