"A personality is a full Congress of orators and pressure-groups, of children, demagogues, communists, isolationists, war-mongers, mugwumps, grafters, prayer-meetings, spiritualists, and astrologers."

你越个人化，就越普遍化。

A painting must be beautiful in itself, not because it represents something beautiful.

在农业中，耐心不仅是一种美德，更是一种必需。

写作是一种保存短暂事物的方式。

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful.

译文：想把家庭治理好先学会修养身心，说话做事一定要谨慎小心，读书的目的在于明白道理，见识一定要高远。赏析：修身齐家治国平天下，这是古人的人生目标。修身为首要任务，而修身又以谨言慎行为根本。言行不慎，不仅会招惹流言是非，更会玷污自己的名节。要想把修身做好，首先要去读书，不读书就不能明理，不明理就是莽夫一个。