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. 一个人品格的美丑，不仅仅在于他取得的成就，也在于他的目的和动机；他真正的历史，不在于已经做过的事，而在于一心要做的事。