不念居安思危,戒奢以俭,德不处其厚,情不胜其欲,斯亦伐根以求木茂,塞源而欲流长也。
释义:不考虑在安逸的环境中要想到危难,用节俭来戒除奢侈,不使自己的道德处于深厚的境界,不能使自己的情欲战胜物质欲望,这就像砍伐树木的根却想要树木长得茂盛,堵塞水的源头却想要水流得长远一样荒谬。 
意识到时间并不重要乃是智慧之门。
若你遇上麻烦,不要逞强,你就跑,远远跑开。
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.