The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

If you let yourself be undisciplined on the small things, you will probably be undisciplined on the large things as well.

现在生活中，没有什么可比一句好的陈词滥调，更能营造出四海一家亲的效果。

I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is.

不成熟状态就是不经别人的引导就无力运用自己的理智。

或许谁都还会有这些弱点，否则可真糟了，绝顶的聪慧也要招人嘲笑了。我一生都在研究该怎么样避免这些弱点。例如虚荣和傲慢就是属于这一类弱点。