There is no history except as it is composed.

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.

"History is the echo of voices we can no longer hear."

当你有一个好收成时，农民高兴，他的妻子高兴，孩子们高兴，动物们高兴，土地也高兴。

You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.

生活充满不确定性，而这正是它有趣的地方。