"若云雪芹披阅增删，然则开卷至此这一篇楔子又系谁撰？足见作者之笔狡猾之甚。后文如此者不少。这正是作者用画家烟云模糊处，观者万不可被作者瞒蔽了去，方是巨眼。"

"八字便是作者一生慚恨。"

"Persons whom I saw thirty years ago and with whom I was intimate now appear on the page, and this compels me to decla…"

"能解者方有辛酸之泪，哭成此書。壬午除夕，書未成，芹爲泪盡而逝。余常哭芹，泪亦待盡。每思覓青埂峰再問石兄，奈不遇癩頭和尚何！悵悵！今而後惟願造化主再出一芹一脂，是書何幸，余二人亦大快遂心於九泉矣。甲午八日泪筆。"

"知眼泪還債，大都作者一人耳。余亦知此意，但不能說得出。"

"By resorting to illusions, the supreme expression of love is attained. Nothing can compare to it."

"作者今尚記金魁星之事乎？撫今思昔，腸斷心摧。"

"又是一個有害無益者。作者一生為此所誤，批者一生亦為此所誤，於開卷凡見如此人，世人故為喜，余反抱恨，蓋四字誤人甚矣。被誤者深感此批。"

"自悟則自了，又何用人亦解哉？此正是猶未正覺大悟也。"

"……此書之妙皆從詩詞句中翻出者……"