The highest excellence is like water. The excellence of water appears in its benefiting all things, and in its occupying, without striving, the low place which all men dislike.

上善若水，水善利万物而不争。处眾人之所恶，故几於道。

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

报纸和杂志所提供的最重要的服务是教育人们以不信任的态度对待印刷品。

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

最值得做的事情是把快乐投入到别人的生活中去。

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

在通往毁灭的道路上，从来都伴随着对理想的口惠而实不至。

The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.

我们为别人提供的服务是我们为自己在地球上的房间支付的租金。

The workers were in the hole, ... They heard some popping sounds and they came out. They don't know if they affected the electrical service or if the electrical service went sour for some other reason.

工人们在洞里，……他们听到一些爆裂声就出来了。他们不知道他们是否影响了电力系统，或者电力系统是否因为其他原因坏了。

The world is a fine thing to save, but a wretch to worship.

拯救世界是一件美好的事情，但敬拜神却是一个可怜虫。

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

发挥一个人的力量有两种方式:一种是向下推，另一种是向上拉。

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

承认一个好的转变和去做同样伟大的事情。

There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.

没有什么比为同胞服务更伟大的使命了。帮助弱者是最大的贡献。没有什么比做好这件事更令人满意的了。

There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent.

在部队里有一个讨厌的人，叫做陆军通讯员。

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

那些给别人的生活带来阳光的人，他们自己也无法阻挡。

To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.

关心别人，使他们的问题成为自己的问题，永远是一个人真正道德发展的开始。

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

要提供真正的服务，你必须加上一些用钱买不到或衡量不了的东西，那就是真诚和正直。

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

消除错误与建立新的真理或事实一样好，有时甚至更好。