莫轻视此身，三才在此六尺；莫轻视此生，千古在此一日。
不要把自身不当回事，天、地、人的精华都藏在身体之中；不要轻视今生的每一刻，千古的功业关键在今朝。
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
君子做学问，是为了完善自己；小人做学问，是为了哗众取宠。