The mind is not a passive recipient of impressions, but an active participant in the process of perception.
心灵不是印象的被动接受者，而是感知过程中的积极参与者。
骄傲是普遍的罪恶，是最大的恶习。
Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit, everyone hits great forehands and backhands – it’s the upstairs that counts.
假如一个人听到差劲的音乐，他的责任就是用谈话把它压下去。
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
"We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way."
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all doing direct the other way.