The darkest hour is that before the dawn.
黎明前的時分是最黑暗的。—— Fuller 富勒
The longest day has an end.
最難過的日子也有盡頭。—— Howell 賀韋爾
Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.
生活而無目標，猶如航海之無指南針。—— J. Ruskin 魯斯金
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
手中的壹只鳥勝於林中的兩只鳥。—— Heywood 希伍德
One swallow does not make a summer.
壹燕不成夏。—— Taverner 泰維納
A man may lead a horse to the water, but he cannot make it drink.
壹個人可以把馬帶到河邊，但他不能令它飲水。 —— Heywood 希伍德
One cannot eat one’s cake and have it.
壹個人不能把他的糕餅吃掉之後還留在手上。 —— Davies 戴維斯
Time is money.
時間就是金錢。—— Benjamin Franklin富蘭克林
Time and tide wait for no man.
時間不等人。—— Scott 斯科特
All for one, one for all.
人人為我，我為人人。—— [法] Dumas pére大仲馬
Other men live to eat, while I eat to live.
別人為食而生存，我為生存而食。—— Socrates 蘇格拉底
Easy come, easy go.
易得者亦易失。 —— Hazlitt赫斯特
Histories make men wise; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. (Francis Bacon , British philosopher ) 歷史使人明智；詩詞使人靈秀；數學使人周密；自然哲學使人深刻；倫理使人莊重；邏輯修辭學使人善辨。( 英國哲學家 培根. F.)
The time of life is short; to spend that shortness basely, it would be too long. (William Shakespeare, British dramatist )
人生苦短，若虛度年華，則短暫的人生就太長了。(英國劇作家 莎士比亞. W.)
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. (Franklin Roosevelt , American president ) 我們不能總是為我們的青年造就美好未來，但我們能夠為未來造就我們的青年壹代。 (美國總統 羅斯福. F.)
Love rules his kingdom without a sword.
愛，統治了他的王國，不用壹枝利劍。—— Herbert 赫伯特
We soon believe what we desire.
我們欲望中的東西，我們很快就信以為真。—— Chaucer喬叟
As many languages as he has ，as many friends， as many arts and trades ，so many times is he a man．
Emerson ，Culture，The Conduct of Life
竭盡全力掌握各種語言，結交各式朋友，精通各類技藝及行業，如此努力方能成為壹個完整的人。
愛默生：《處世之道·論文化》
In a world as empirical as ours ，a youngster who does not know what he Is good at will not be sure what he is good for．
Edgar Friedenberg ，The Vanishing Adolescent
在我們這個經驗的世界裏，壹個不懂得自己精通什麽的青年不會確切地知道他的價值所在。
埃德加·弗裏登伯格：《消失的青少年》
經典美文：
Youth
Samuel Ullman
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonder,the unfailing childlike appetite for what’s next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the Infinite, so long as you are young.
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.
青春
塞繆爾·厄爾曼
人生匆匆，青春不是易逝的壹段。青春應是壹種永恒的心態。滿臉紅光，嘴唇紅潤，腿腳靈活，這些都不是青春的全部。真正的青春啊，它是壹種堅強的意誌，是壹種想象力的高品位，是感情充沛飽滿，是生命之泉的清澈常新。
青春意味著勇敢戰勝怯懦，青春意味著進取戰勝安逸，年月的輪回就壹定導致衰老嗎？要知道呵，老態龍鐘是因為放棄了對真理的追求。
無情歲月的流逝，留下了深深的皺紋，而熱忱的喪失，會在深處打下烙印。焦慮、恐懼、自卑，終會使心情沮喪，意誌消亡。
60也罷，16也罷，每個人的心田都應保持著不泯的意誌，去探索新鮮的事物，去追求人生樂趣。我們的心中都應有座無線電臺，只要不斷地接受來自人類和上帝的美感、希望、勇氣和力量，我們就會永葆青春。倘若妳收起天線，使自己的心靈蒙上玩世不恭的霜雪和悲觀厭世的冰淩，即使妳年方20，妳已垂垂老矣；倘若妳已經80高齡，臨於辭世，若豎起天線去收聽樂觀進取的電波，妳仍會青春煥發。