机械的完美在于以最小的摩擦和浪费产生预期的效果。

质量比数量更重要。一个全垒打比两个二垒安打好得多。

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Half the skill of being educated is learning what you can ignore.

历史不仅仅是一系列事件，而是人类经验和情感的复杂网络。

我书中的角色通常是那些在世界上努力寻找自己位置的人。