In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole worldkin.

I'm not a villain, I'm a realist.

世界是一个舞台，但演员选得很糟糕。

"There is a world of difference between the love we feel for a wild creature and the love we feel for a human being."

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.