书桌上不能有太多的书，心中则不能少书；这就好像鱼离了水则干枯，心中没有书则无寄托。

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.

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness； wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.

And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. Psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. No one's quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe it's true.

伟大是许多小事做得好，日复一日。

"A book is a dream that you hold in your hand."