An hour may destroy what an age was building. 一个小时可以摧毁一个时代的建筑。
When a child is asleep a mother's attention is on the child's stomach. 孩子睡着时，母亲的注意力都放在孩子的肚子上。
Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all. 以某种形式的工作是所有人命中注定的命运。 -- Anna Brownell Jameson 安娜·布劳内尔·詹姆逊
Of the wealth of the world each has as much as they take. 世界上的财富，每个人拥有的都和他们拿走的一样多。
Discord is less painful than loneliness. 不和谐比孤独痛苦得少。
Don't let the peasant know how good the cheese with the pears is. 别让农夫知道加梨的奶酪有多好吃。
We taught him begging, and (now) he has the start of us at the gates. 我们教他乞讨，(现在)他比我们先到了门口。
Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you. 从长远来看，真正发生在你身上的是经验;真相最终战胜了你。 -- Katherine Anne Porter 凯瑟琳·安·波特
The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. 中间人穿破一千双凉鞋。
The headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be. 最热烈的爱是不可能的爱。 -- Anna Godbersen 安娜·戈德伯森