Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.

文学的价值不在于它的流行程度，而在于它能否触动读者的内心。

Agriculture is the foundation of manufacture and commerce.

Understanding the cosmos requires transcending the senses, reaching deeper levels through rational inference and contemplation.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt, and the profoundest wisdom to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.