“ A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. 一个人应该按照他的爱好去读书,因为他把读书当作一种任务,这对他没有什么好处。 Samuel Johnson 塞缪尔·约翰逊
“ The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. 语言的主要优点是清晰,没有什么比使用不熟悉的单词更能削弱它。 Hippocrates 希波克拉底
“ A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century. 从某种意义上说,一个通晓历史的人,可以说从世界诞生之日起就生活在世上,并且在每一个世纪都在不断地增加他的知识储备。 David Hume 大卫·休谟