The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

  • -- William Ellery Channing 钱宁

对一个人来说,最好的书并不总是那些智者推荐的书,而是那些能满足他特殊需求的书,能满足他头脑中自然的渴望,因此能唤起兴趣,吸引思想。

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When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the event by; it is good and made by a good workman.

当一本书激发你的精神,激发你高尚而勇敢的情感时,不要用其他任何规则来评判这件事;它很好,是由一个好工人做的。

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

我一直喜欢树。然后,随着年龄的增长,我对生态学产生了兴趣,树篱被毁坏了,景观变成了草原。

A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.

一棵树对着天空有着和人一样的兴趣,一样的性格,一样的表情。

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

观察胜于书本,经验胜于个人,是优秀的教育者。

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

法律永远不能使人自由;只有男人才能使法律自由。

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

只有当一个人把真理据为己有时,他的个性才算成熟。