我所知道的最大快乐,是祕密的做善行,然后被人意外的发现。
Society can and does execute its own mandates, and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
The materials I use are not just objects; they are carriers of meaning.