我不喜欢安逸，我喜欢成长。

君主对于有才能的贤良之人应当抬举，让他处于尊位，富贵绵长；对于没有能力且无德的人应当废弃，让他贫困低贱，成为受驱使的奴仆。

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.

If one hears bad music it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

名誉是一件无聊的骗人的东西；得到它的人未必有什么功德，失去它的人也未必有什么过失。