心灵不是感官信息的被动接受者，而是感知过程中的积极参与者。
The mind is not a passive recipient of sensory information but an active participant in the process of perception.
Liberal democracy may constitute the "end point of mankind's ideological evolution" and the "final form of human government."
Optimize your generosity. No one on their deathbed has ever regretted giving too much away.
The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.