权力精英由那些其职位使他们能够超越普通男女的普通环境的人组成；他们处于能够做出具有重大后果的决策的位置。

感叹古代工匠的智慧与技艺高超。

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

The worst pain a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.