唱歌的人不求声音高尖而求合乎节拍，评论者不追求华丽的辞藻而注重所谈论的事情符合实际。

唯一能让你富有的是你的思想。

If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favours nor your hate.

"A novel is a long piece of prose with something wrong with it."

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

我对事物的表面不感兴趣，而是对隐藏在表面之下的东西感兴趣。