The stories we love best do live in us forever.

The improvement of the productive powers of labor, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgement with which it is anywhere directed or applied, seem to have been the effects of division of labor.

The key to efficient computation is not just speed, but elegance.

I like to make beautiful things about difficult subjects.

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

艺术是社会的一面镜子，但它也可以是一把塑造社会的锤子。