译文：要发勇猛心。人们不肯改过，多半是因为因循守旧、不肯向前；我们要鼓舞振作起来，不要迟疑，不要等待。对于小的过恶，要如同肉中有芒刺一般，立刻剔除；对于大的过恶，要像毒蛇咬自己的手指一样，要快速斩断，没有丝毫的停滞，这就是《周易》中所说的风雷之所以有益处的原因。

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it.

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view."

The greatest happiness for the laborer consists in having an abundant supply of the necessaries of life.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.