“ We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love. 有时候我们可以爱我们不懂的东西,但是完全理解我们不爱的东西是不可能的。 Anna Brownell Jameson 安娜·布劳内尔·詹姆逊
“ Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim. 凡是见过世面的人都知道,没有什么比一句格言更没用的了。 Thomas Babington Macaulay 麦考莱
“ A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity. 朋友应该是这样的人:我们可以同样信任他的理解和美德,我们可以立即重视他的公正和真诚的意见。 Robert Hall 霍尔