Did you grow me as food, and that’s why I have no memory?

The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.

译文：感叹白发，观察世间的道路。人们无不追求荣华，看重富贵而轻视贫贱。显赫的宫门，华丽的宫殿。年轻时入仕，幼年时就献上谋略。

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.

Then I had religion, then I had a vision. I could not turn from their revel in derision. Then I saw the Congo creeping through the black, cutting through the forest with a golden track。