书籍是理解自己和别人的钥匙。
"Books are the keys to understanding ourselves and others."
每一个人生下来都拥有一项资产，它比其他所有的资产价值都高，就是他最后的一口气。
The main difference between me and other people who have amassed this kind of money is that I am primarily interested in ideas, and not in making money.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
"Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage that allows us to be brave - that is, to acknowledge that there is more beauty than our eyes can bear, that precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm."
The power of literature lies in its ability to transport us to other worlds, to make us see the world through the eyes of others.
自己所具备的美德，可以希望别人也具有，但是不能强求别人具有；自己所没有的品德，可以规劝他人具有，却不能怪罪别人没有。因此待人宽容的人根据自己的心理来体察别人的感受，决不按照自己的情况来衡量别人。
实际情况中，人民的意愿指的不过是人民中人数最多或发言最积极那部分人的意愿；多数人，或那些成功地控制主流发言权的人可以利用他们的“民主权利”去压迫他们以外的任何人。这种“多数人的暴政”和任何其他滥用权力的行为一样，都需要采取措施来防止这种情况发生。因此，即使在一个拥有政府时时刻刻能被民众审查的民主社会中，政府权力的限制依然未失去其重要性。
I don't act to escape life, I act to understand it.