The stones we pull from the earth carry 400 million years of history—we're merely temporary stewards.

The purpose of fiction is to take you out of your own life and make you aware of other lives.

The limits of sense are not to be determined by the narrow bounds of our own capacities.

我敢说，没有什么比阅读更令人愉悦了！人们对任何事物的厌倦都比不上一本书来得慢。

演讲者应让听众充分相信，他已竭尽全力为他们带来愉悦与教益。

I think that the function of art is to make life more interesting than art.

世界是一个美好的地方，值得为之奋斗。