在策划别人的事时好像在策划自己的事，则思虑能周全。在策划自己的事时如同策划别人的事一样，则旁人能看清一切。

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it.

"A well-written biography is a resurrection of the past."