The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.

一个人品性的美丑，不仅在于其所作所为，也在于其目标与内心冲动；真正的生命史，不只写在已做之事中，更写在曾经的意愿里。