"The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday."

文学是反映人类状况复杂性的镜子。

最伟大的故事是那些让我们改变的故事。

一件事情都不能做到有始有终，就不要去操持其他的事情;一物也不明白，就不要追求博闻广记。

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.