生气时，先数到十再说话；如果非常生气，就数到一百。

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

诚实是智慧之书的第一章。

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.

我们认为这些真理是不言而喻的：人人生而平等。

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

I cannot live without books.

我不能没有书。

倘使让我来决定，我们应该是有一个政府而不要报纸，还是应该有报纸而不要政府，我会毫不犹豫选择后者。

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

我很相信运气，而我发现越是努力工作，我的运气越好。

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

禁止持有武器的法律。只会解除那些本来就不打算或没有决心要犯罪的人的武装……这样的法律只会让受害者变得更糟，让行凶者更强；它们相当于鼓励而不是阻止凶杀，因为一个没有武装的人更可能被一个武装的人袭击。

The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.