文章是用来阐明道理的。因此文辞不能不修饰，而道理不能不阐明。

禁止持有武器的法律。只会解除那些本来就不打算或没有决心要犯罪的人的武装……这样的法律只会让受害者变得更糟，让行凶者更强；它们相当于鼓励而不是阻止凶杀，因为一个没有武装的人更可能被一个武装的人袭击。

The work is always in conversation with other works.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

Choose always the way that seems the best, however it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.

释义：如果一个人未经努力就想获得报酬，最终可能会遭受不幸和失败。

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.