Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library: a company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years.... The thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.
想想看，在你所选择的最小的图书馆里，有一群最聪明、最机智的人，他们在一千年后可以从所有文明国家中选出来……他们没有向他们的知心朋友揭示的思想，在这里用透明的文字向我们——另一个时代的陌生人——写了出来。