不要認為取勝就是一切，更重要的是要有信念。倘若你沒有信念，那勝利又有什麼意義呢？ -柯克蘭
growth in wisdom may be exactlyi measured by decrease in bitterness. -nietzsch
智慧的增長可用痛苦的減少來精確衡量。 -尼采
it is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. what are you industrious about？ -thoreau
光勤勞是不夠的，螞蟻也是勤勞的。要看你為什麼要勤勞。 -梭羅
where there is no desire, there will be no industry. -john locke
哪裡沒有欲望，哪裡就不會有勤奮。 -越翰·洛克
something attempted, something done. -h.w.longfellow
有所嘗試，就等於有所作為。 -h.w.朗費羅
not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirthfulness.if you would know aught, be gay before it. -thoreau
通達智慧，不是通過克制和嚴格，而是通過放任和孩童般的無憂無慮。你想了解任何事，請保持心情快樂。 -梭羅
the people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, make them. -bernard shaw
在這個世界上取得成功的人，都努力去尋找他們想要的機會，如果找不到時，他們就自己創造機會。 -肖伯納
reading make a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. -bacon
閱讀使人充實，交談使人機智，寫作使人精確。 -培根
the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. -william james
智慧就是懂得該忽略什麼的技巧。 -威廉·詹姆斯
those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it. -thomas paine
想要收穫自由之果的人，必須承受維護自由的勞苦。 -托馬斯·佩因
it never will rain roses. when we want to have more roses we must plant trees. -george eliot
天上永遠不會掉下玫瑰來，如果想要更多的玫瑰，必須自己種植。 -喬治·艾略特
too great an eagerness to discharge on obligation is a species of ingratitude. -la rochefoucauld
急於逃避履行義務是一種忘恩負義的行為。 -拉·羅什福科
time is a bird for ever on the wing. -t.w.robertson
時間是一隻永遠在飛翔的鳥。 -t.w.羅伯遜
all books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour, and the books of all time. -john ruskin
一切書籍都可以分為二類：即：一時之書與永久之書。 -約翰·羅斯金
young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, fitterfo new projects than for settled business. -bacon
年輕人更適合發明而非評價；更適合執行而非決策；更適合從事新項目而非固定職業。 -培根
some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. -bacon
一些書可以淺嘗即止；一些書可以狼吞虎咽；而有些書則需要細嚼慢咽，好好消化。 -培根
the three foundations of learning; seeing much, suffering much, and studying much. -catherall
求學的三個基本條件是：多觀察，多吃苦，多研究。 -加塞羅爾
natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth direction too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. -bacon
天生的能力好象天然生成的植物，必須通過學習加以修整；然而學習本身如若不由實踐去約束，必然方向紛雜而漫無目的。 -培根