Every artist was first an amateur.
每个艺术家在一开始都是外行。
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
世上唯一不能遵循从众原则的东西，是人的良心。
《杀死一只知更鸟》

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
对世界的了解是在世界中获得的，而不是在储物间里。
Lord Chesterfield

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
就连最智慧的人也有东西要学。
George Santayana

We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.
我们心中都有光明和黑暗，但更重要的是我们选择哪一面。这才是我们真正的样子。
J.K. Rowling

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
当一个孩子觉得自己能成功完成一项任务时，千万别去帮他。
Maria Montessori

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure—which is: try to please everybody.
我不能给你成功的公式，但我可以给你失败的公式，那就是：试图取悦每个人。
Herbert Swope

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.
与其希望活得久，不如祈盼过得好。
Benjamin Franklin

You were not made to live like brute beasts, but to pursue virtue and knowledge.
人不应当像走兽一样活着，而应该追求知识和美德。
Dante Alighieri

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
浅薄者相信运气；有能力的人相信因果。
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Things are never as bad as they seem.
事情永远不会像它看起来那样糟糕。
《杀死一只知更鸟》

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
欲使恶人得胜，只需好人袖手旁观。
Edmund Burke

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses courage loses all.
失去财产的人损失很大，失去朋友的人损失更多，而失去勇气的人则失去了一切。
Cervantes

No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.
不管我们现在所做的事看起来有多么的微不足道或不重要，如果我们认真地做，它可能很快就会引领我们通向美好事物。
Channing Pollock

The future has several names. For the weak, it is the impossible. For the fainthearted, it is the unknown. For the thoughtful and valiant, it is the ideal.
未来有几个名字：对软弱的人来说，它叫不可能；对胆怯懦弱的人来说，它叫未知；对于深思熟虑且有勇气的人来说，它叫理想。
Victor Hugo