"Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others --- his last breath."
每一个人生下来都拥有一项资产，它比其他所有的资产价值都高，这就是他最后的一口气。

"Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person."
良好的教养在于隐藏我们对自己较佳的评价，以及隐藏我们对他人较差的评价。

"Fame is vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion."
“名声”如同是蒸气，“声望”如同是意外，在地球上唯一可以确定的事情是被遗忘掉。

"Principles is another name for prejudice."
“原则”是“偏见”的另一个名称。

"Prophecies boldly uttered never fall barren on superstitious ears."
迷信的人总是相信那些大胆的预言。

"Necessity knows no law."
“需要”不懂任何的“法律”。

"When you fish for love， bait with your heart， not your brain."
当你为爱情而钓鱼时，要用你的心当作饵，而不是用你的脑筋。

"If all men were rich， all men would be poor."
如果所有的人都是富有的，那么所有的人都是贫穷的。

"Always acknowledge a fault frankly. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more."
你经常坦白承认自己的过失，上司就会失去戒备之心，你才会有机会去犯更多的错误。

"Get your facts first， and then you can distort them as much as you like."
先获得事实，然后你才能够随心所欲的扭曲误解它。

"The deadly enemy of a man， his own tongue...."
一个人最危险的敌人是他自己的口舌。

一本怀有恶意的书籍将不会伤害到任何人，除了写作它的傻瓜。
"A malignant book would hurt nobody but the fool who wrote it."

预言是唯一的一项人类技术，它是无法经由练习而改善。
"Prophesying was the only human art that couldn’t be improved by practice."

当一个人阅读《圣经》时，与其说他惊诧于上帝的智慧，倒不如说他惊诧于上帝的无知。
"When one reads Bibles， one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what he doesn’t know."

亚当真是一位老糊涂，他本来一切事情都很顺利，而且他已经成功的赢得社区内最漂亮女孩子的芳心，但是他对自己的征服成果却感到不满足，他必须去吃那一颗可怜的小苹果。
"What a fool old Adam was. Had everything his own way; had succeeded in gaining the love of the best looking girl in the neighborhood， but yet unsatisfied with his conquest he had to eat a miserable little apple."