A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

不过是君主不把它［爱人利人］用在政事上,士大夫也不把它付诸行动罢了。

The world is a great mountain, and we are the climbers.

When a person realizes he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, "Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me."

The individual is reduced to a negligible quantity, perhaps less in his consciousness than in his habits and in the unconscious adjustments of his life.

译文：舍弃他的短处，选取他的长处。