The man of system... is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from it.
制度主义者……往往自以为非常聪明；他常常如此迷恋于自己设想的政府理想计划的所谓完美，以至于不能容忍对其有丝毫的偏离。
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
"Where words fail, music speaks."
The best way to predict the future is to create it.