【译文】酒要和了解自己的人一起喝，诗要与懂得它的人一起吟。认识的人可以很多，但真正了解，并达到知心的却没有几个。

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

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.