After every foolish day we sleep off the fumes and furies of its hours; and though we are always engaged with particulars, and often enslaved to them, we bring with us to every experiment the innate universal laws.
每度过愚昧的一天,我们便在睡眠中消解那些时刻的迷乱与愤怒;尽管总忙于琐事,甚至常受其奴役,我们仍将与生俱来的普遍法则带入每一次尝试。
— Ralph Waldo Emerson · Essays · Nature —