真理最伟大的朋友是时间，其最大的敌人是偏见，其永远的同伴是谦逊。——c. c   

one must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
 　 
    直到夜幕降临，人们才知白昼的辉煌。    ——sophocles

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

  真理是美的；毫无疑问，谎言也是如此。 ——emerson.

nature never deceives us; it is always us who deceive ourselves.
 　 
    大自然永远不会欺骗我们，欺骗我们的往往是我们自己。——rousseau

    you can never plan the future by the past.
 　 
    永远也不能依照过去来计划将来   ——burke    time is a versatile performer. it flies, marches on, heals all wounds, runs out and will tell.
 　 
    时间是个多才多艺的表演者。它能展翅飞翔，能阔步前进，能治愈创伤，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.
 　 
    在所有头脑的影响之中，大自然的影响可谓是在时间上最先，在作用上最为重要的。   ——emerson

    death…is no more than passing from one room into another.
 　 
    死亡只不过是从一个房间进入另一个房间。——helen keller    important principles may and must be flexible.
 　 
    重要的原则能够也必须是灵活的。——abraham lincoln

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

 每个故事都可以从两个方面看，至少两个方面。——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?
 　 
    今天不同于昨天。我们自己也在改变。那么，我们的著作和思想，如果想永远不过时，怎么能始终不改变呢？    ——thomas carlyle

    love alone can release the power of the atom so it will work for man and not against him.
 　 
    只有爱才能使原子的力量造福人类，而非危害人类。——w. a. peterson    life is long if you know how to use it.
 　 
    如能善于利用，生命乃长。——seneca

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