真理最偉大的朋友是時間，其最大的敵人是偏見，其永遠的同伴是謙遜。——c. c   

one must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
 　 
    直到夜幕降臨，人們才知白晝的輝煌。    ——sophocles

    smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
 　 
    靜水流深。——shakespeare
    
    what is a weed? —a plant whose virtues have not been discovered.

  真理是美的；毫無疑問，謊言也是如此。 ——emerson.

nature never deceives us; it is always us who deceive ourselves.
 　 
    大自然永遠不會欺騙我們，欺騙我們的往往是我們自己。——rousseau

    you can never plan the future by the past.
 　 
    永遠也不能依照過去來計劃將來   ——burke    time is a versatile performer. it flies, marches on, heals all wounds, runs out and will tell.
 　 
    時間是個多才多藝的表演者。它能展翅飛翔，能闊步前進，能治愈創傷，能消逝而去，也能揭示真相。   ——franklin p.jones    the first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature.
 　 
    在所有頭腦的影響之中，大自然的影響可謂是在時間上最先，在作用上最為重要的。   ——emerson

    death…is no more than passing from one room into another.
 　 
    死亡隻不過是從一個房間進入另一個房間。——helen keller    important principles may and must be flexible.
 　 
    重要的原則能夠也必須是靈活的。——abraham lincoln

    that is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

 每個故事都可以從兩個方麵看，至少兩個方麵。——ann landers

    today is not yesterday. we ourselves change. how then can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be fittest, continue always the same?
 　 
    今天不同於昨天。我們自己也在改變。那麼，我們的著作和思想，如果想永遠不過時，怎麼能始終不改變呢？    ——thomas carlyle

    love alone can release the power of the atom so it will work for man and not against him.
 　 
    隻有愛才能使原子的力量造福人類，而非危害人類。——w. a. peterson    life is long if you know how to use it.
 　 
    如能善於利用，生命乃長。——seneca

    the greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion is humility.