A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

  • -- William Hazlitt 威廉·哈兹里特

学者就像一本用死语言写的书。并不是每个人都能读懂。

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Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

很少有人会离开学者安全的隐居生活,远离文坛和学术界的宁静,而成为不友善和敌对思想的批判对象。

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

想象的作品应该用通俗易懂的语言来写;它们越纯粹是想象出来的,就越需要简单明了。

The eyes have one language everywhere.

眼睛到处都有一种语言。