语言，一个被思想操纵的傀儡，或许又是掩饰我们个性的那层皮肤：一个法学家对文字的感觉

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., jurist (1841-1935)