"A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
一个人的工作不过是通过艺术的迂回，重新发现那两三个伟大而简单的形象，正是它们让他的心初次敞开。
There is no history except as it is composed.
绅士就是从不无心伤害别人感觉的人。
解决数学问题的旅程和解决方案本身一样重要，因为它教会我们耐心、坚持和发现的快乐。
"A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us."
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
译文：奉承的话顺从了人的内心容易让人高兴，直率的话不能接受让人容易发怒。赏析：奉承的话虽然好听，但能让人迷失自我，直率的话虽然逆耳，但能让人清醒。我们少听阿谀的谗言，多听直率的忠言。