幸福取决于我们自己。

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

To travel is to write, and to write is to travel.

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.  

读书学习的人要像闺中少女一样小心谨慎对待别人。做官之后如同过了门的媳妇，要使百姓能各有所养。年老辞官后如同慈祥的老太婆，要担负起教育后人的责任。