如果你希望永远不被批评，那就不要尝试任何新事物好了。

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.

译文：月亮过了十五后，就逐渐不明亮了，人到了中年之后，做什么事都难以有大作为。赏析：青少年是人生最美好的时期，这个时期精力最旺盛，记忆力最强，也是人生最该努力奋斗的时候。