报纸的工作是安慰受苦的人，折磨舒适的人。
The job of the newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
I do not like proper novels. In proper novels people say things like, ‘I am veined with iron, with silver and with streaks of common mud. I cannot contract into the firm fist which those clench who do not depend on stimulus.’ What does this mean? I do not know. Nor does Father. Nor do the people who write these books.
The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes—or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two—is gone.
译文：贤明的人如果长辈给自己留了太多的财产，则损害他的志向而变得不思进取；愚笨的人如果长辈给其留了太多的财产，则使其更加肆无忌惮使他的错误犯得更深更多。
最简单的词语往往承载最重的分量。
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
"The truth is often hidden in the smallest details."