马氏社会主义始终对观念史学家有意义——一种如此不合逻辑，如此呆板的教条如何能够对人的思想以及通过它们而来的历史事件施加如此强力而持久的影响。
Marxian Socialism must always remain a portent to the historians of Opinion — how a doctrine so illogical and so dull can have exercised so powerful and enduring an influence over the minds of men， and， through them， the events of history.
最好的想法往往来自最意想不到的地方。
译文：借鉴前代兴衰，考察当下得失。《通鉴》的写作宗旨，直指现实关怀。
"Writing is a way of life, a way of being in the world."
传统不是牢笼，而是艺术家的翅膀。
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.