In language, there is no one-to-one correspondence between words and the things they refer to.
世界文明的命运取决于为全人类提供体面的生活水平。
Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
贫困不在于拥有的少,而在于贪得无厌。
The present state of the system of nature is evidently a resultant of what it was in the preceding moment, and if we conceive of an intelligence which at a given instant comprehends all the relations of the entities of this universe, it could state the respective positions, motions, and general effects of all these entities at any time in the past or future.