The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

译文：不能让智巧劳烦打扰我们的心境，不能让私利拖累我们的自身；把国家的治乱寄托在法术上，把是非的判断寄托在赏罚上。

Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.

现实只是一抹幻影，尽管它从不消散。

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

"I always wanted to be the best, but I also wanted to be myself."