You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

刚的东西容易折断，柔的东西因为可以卷曲所以不易折断。

一个精心设计的家应该讲述居住者的故事。

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

The power of art lies in its unpredictability. 艺术的力量在于它的不可预测性。

The good which a wise man seeks， the wise man is.

种一棵树最好的时间是二十年前，其次是现在。

一下子考中金榜题名，但没有十年的努力不可能官至宰相。