The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life.

真相很少是纯粹的，也绝不简单。

【译文】 孔子说：“对品德不进行培养，对学问不进行钻研，听到好人好事不能跟着做，有了错误不能及时改正，这就是我所担忧的。”

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.

文学是社会的镜子，反映其美德和恶习。