道人是非长短者通常枯燥乏味，但当他谈起自己时却往往妙趣横生。
译文：想把家庭治理好先学会修养身心，说话做事一定要谨慎小心，读书的目的在于明白道理，见识一定要高远。赏析：修身齐家治国平天下，这是古人的人生目标。修身为首要任务，而修身又以谨言慎行为根本。言行不慎，不仅会招惹流言是非，更会玷污自己的名节。要想把修身做好，首先要去读书，不读书就不能明理，不明理就是莽夫一个。
失去一种语言就是失去一种看世界的方式。
We must remember that we are not the only species that matters on this planet.
If you are ready to give up everything else and study the whole history and background of the market and all the principal companies whose stocks are on the board as carefully as a medical student studies anatomy—if you can do all that and in addition you have the cool nerves of a gambler, the sixth sense of a clairvoyant and the courage of a lion, you have a ghost of a chance.
