1. The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
所有的好書,讀起來就如同和過去世界上最傑出的人談話。笛卡爾 (Descartes)
2. What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
看似痛苦的試煉往往是偽裝的祝福。王爾德
3. If you’d be loved, be worthy to be loved.
要得到別人的愛,就必須要有值得愛的地方。奧維德 (Ovid)
4. Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
每個聖人都有過去,每個罪人都有未來。王爾德
5. The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
幸福的藝術就在於從平常之事中提取快樂的能力。亨利•沃德•比切爾 (Henry Ward Beecher)
6. A friend that you buy with presents will be bought from you.
用禮物“買來”的朋友終會被買走。湯瑪斯•富勒 (Thomas Fuller)
7. Write in on your heart that every day is the best of the year.
記住每一天都是一年中最好的日子。愛默生
8. The horizon of life is broadened chiefly by the enlargement of the heart.
生活的範圍是隨著心胸的開闊而變寬廣的。布萊克 (Black)
9. If I give you a pfennig, you will be one pfennig richer and I’ll be one pfennig poorer. But if I give you an idea, you will have a new idea, but I shall still have it, too.
如果我給你一個芬尼,你的財富增長而我的財富縮減,幅度都是一個芬尼。但如果我給你一點想法,儘管你有了新的想法,我卻並沒損失什麼。愛因斯坦
10. Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
只有有耐心圓滿完成簡單工作的人,才能夠輕而易舉地完成困難的事。席勒 (Friedrich Schiller)