How happy he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease. 他戴着这样的王冠，是多么幸福啊!他是一个无忧无虑的劳动青年。 -- Oliver Goldsmith 奥利弗·戈德史密斯
Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet. 追逐金钱是件可怕的事，但遇见它却是件迷人的事。 -- Henry James 亨利詹姆斯
The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry. 吃饱了的人，不明白饥饿之人的缺乏。
But this is a thing that I know--to live with fear is not to live at all. A man will die every moment he is afraid. 但有一件事我知道——带着恐惧生活根本就不是生活。一个人在他害怕的每一刻都会死去。 -- Deanna Raybourn 迪安娜·雷伯恩
You can cage a bird but you can't make it sing. 你可以把鸟关在笼子里，但你不能让它唱歌。
Water from far away is no good for a fire close by. 远水救不了近火。
God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal. 上帝对自己的工作很满意，这是致命的。 -- Samuel Butler 塞缪尔巴特勒
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care. 什么是伟大的，对软弱的人来说必然是模糊的。能让白痴明白的事不值得我去管。 -- William Blake 威廉·布莱克
I know by my own pot how the others boil. 我从自己的锅里知道别人是怎么熬的。