The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

The bond market is the ultimate barometer of market confidence.

生活是一场海难，但我们不能忘记在救生艇上歌唱。

怎么会有不用同道的人而只用与自己意见相同的人的道理呢？ 

If you want to know me, look at my art.

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.