"Every novel is a mirror held up to society's face - sometimes it reflects beauty, more often it shows the cracks we try to ignore."

 释义：不和他人去争名利上的得与失，只求自己能够拥有和增长智慧与才干。

在三十岁时我们想要朋友。在四十岁时我们知道朋友不会比爱情更能拯救我们。

"A personality is a full congress of orators and pressure groups, of children, demagogues, communists, isolationists, war mongers, mugwumps, grafters, prayer-makers, adventurers and clerks; with each of these in a minority of one."

安静可克制躁动，沉稳可克制浮气，宽宏大量能克服心胸狭窄，平缓可克制急躁。

探求事理方法要缓缓，仔细品尝涵泳才能有所心得；欲念决断方法要果断，奋力果决才能自新。