If you meet a sectary or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines, but meet on what common ground remains,--if only that the sun shines and the rain rains for both,--the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it, the boundary mountains on which the eye had fastened have melted into air.
若遇到宗派人士或抱有敌意的党派支持者,别紧盯分界线,而要从尚存的共同点相遇——哪怕只是同享阳光雨露;共同的天地会迅速扩大,不知不觉间,原先横在眼前的界山便已消散。
— Ralph Waldo Emerson · Essays · Prudence —