The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. ― George Eliot, Middlemarch

The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.

现代教育者的任务不是砍伐丛林，而是灌溉沙漠。