美是一种终极价值——我们因其本身而追求它,无需进一步的理由。
反思本身不是罪恶。罪恶在于反思的状态,以及反思带来的静止。
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.