"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the
ability to function." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use."
-- Emily Post, authority on etiquette
"Why not seize the pleasure at once?"
-- Jane Austen
“何不立刻把握快乐?”(有花堪摘直须摘)
--简·奥斯汀
"...but a sanguine temper, for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportion of depression. It soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again."
-- Jane Austen
"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."
-- Ludwig van Beethoven
“音乐是精神世界和感官世界之间的桥梁。”
--路德维希·凡·贝多芬
"Music: The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend."
-- Ludwig van Beethoven