即使有盖世之功，最要不得的是居功自傲；纵然滔天的罪恶，最难得的是悔过之心。

书籍就像一面镜子。如果一头驴子往里看，你不能指望一个天使会往外看。

The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.

It’s one thing to have a past, and another to be held hostage by it.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.

在好处中要取大的，在害处中要取小的。在生活中会遇到好处，也会遇到坏处。对待好处，无疑应择其大者而取之，以获取最佳利益；对坏处，能避免则避免，不能避免则择其小者而取之，以最大限度地减少损失。

The present state of the system of nature is evidently a consequence of what it was in the preceding moment, and if we conceive of an intelligence which at a given instant comprehends all the relations of the entities of this universe, it could state the respective positions, motions, and general effects of all these entities at any time in the past or future.