A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
图书
Books
I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.
我要把书放在桌子上，每天早晨一醒来就读一点，因为我知道这对我有好处，有助于我度过一天。
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.
读书要像交友一样谨慎;因为你的习惯和性格会受到前者和后者的影响。
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...
书不是为了让人相信，而是为了让人去探究。当我们思考一本书的时候，我们不能问自己它说了什么，而是它意味着什么……
Books have been my classroom and my confidant. Books have widened my horizons. Books have comforted me in my hardest times. Books have changed my life.
书籍一直是我的课堂和知己。书开阔了我的视野。在我最困难的时候，书给了我安慰。书改变了我的生活。
When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.
当我成为国王时，他们不仅有面包和住所，而且还有书本上的教导，因为在思想饥饿的地方，饱腹是没有什么价值的。
An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
一个普通人可以用两千本书把自己包围起来，这样，他在这个世界上就至少有了一个可以快乐的地方。
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
在最高的文明中，书仍然是最高的乐趣。谁曾知道它的满足，谁就有了对付灾难的资源。
There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.
窗户上没有窗帘，书架上放不下的书像一群智力难民一样堆在地板上。
Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.
其他人，包括我，写的书里的主角都是又老又有钱的人。或者老而辉煌。老圣人，老巫师，老富翁。
My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.
我的书是挽歌，从某种意义上说，它们是对一个国家的颂歌，就连我有时也认为，这个国家可能已经不复存在，只存在于我的记忆和想象中。
I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.
我宁愿有一个舒适的房间，里面放满了书，你可以给我最好的装饰。
At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.
然而，目前我不认为网络是一个很好的书籍媒介，书籍应该是真正便宜的轻量级平装书，你可以到处乱扔。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
文学为现实添彩，而不是简单地描述现实。它丰富了日常生活所需和提供的必要能力;在这方面，它灌溉着我们的生活已经变成沙漠的土地。
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.
当我发现故事书是由人写的，书并不是自然奇观，而是像草一样自己生长出来的时候，我感到既震惊又失望。
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
我从来不想和一个写得比读得多的人交谈。
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
如果一个人不能一次又一次地享受读书的乐趣，那么读书就毫无用处。
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
过去是一个陌生的国度;他们在那里做的事情不一样。
I love everything that’s old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.
我喜欢一切古老的东西:老朋友、旧时代、旧礼节、旧书、旧酒。