It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

  • -- William Ellery Channing 钱宁

我们主要是通过书籍来享受与杰出人物的交往。在最好的书中,伟人与我们交谈,给我们他们最宝贵的思想,并将他们的灵魂倾注于我们。

相关名言

It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering.

我认为,对于小说作家来说,重要的是在写作的时候保持对书的节奏和形式的意识。也就是说,他应该制造一个物体,而不是喋喋不休。

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

没有什么比一个朋友相信他比另一个朋友优越更能加强友谊了。

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

我遇到的每个人在某种程度上都是我的上司。

I don't read books.

我不读书。