现代生活的最大悲剧是我们拥有我们想要的一切，但没有我们需要的东西。

记忆是个骗子，总是在重写过去。

"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through."

读书人要为子孙营造福祉而不是祈求福祉。严谨家规，崇尚俭朴，教导耕田读书，累积陰德，这就是营造福祉。广积土地房屋，拉拢关系争取利益，买卖功名，这就是求福祉。营造福祉的，平淡而长久；祈求福祉的，浓郁却短暂。

爱情是心中的一个洞。

The biggest regret in life is giving up what should not be given up easily, and stubbornly persisting in what should not be persisted.

The knowledge of the circumstances of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form, but solely as the dispersed bits of incomplete and frequently contradictory knowledge which all the separate individuals possess.