这段话是茅以升对自己一生的总结，强调奋斗是人生的重要桥梁。

我不是男孩，但还不是男人。

没有一丝怪异，就没有精致的美。

"The learn-it-all does better than the know-it-all."

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

因此，人们联合成联邦并使自己处于政府之下的伟大和主要目的是保护他们的财产。