1. When work is a pleasure, life is joy! When work is duty, life is slavery.

1. 工作是一种乐趣时，生活是一种享受!工作是一种义务时，生活则是一种苦役。

2. It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.

2. 不能爱哪行才干哪行，要干哪行爱哪行。

3. A man is called selfish, not pursuing his own good, but neglecting his neighbour’s.

3. 追求自身的利益，不是自私;只有忽视他人的利益，才是自私。

4. People need to know one another to be at their honest best.

4. 人们需要相互了解才能达到最诚实的境界。

5. One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness¹ of warning.

5. 一次痛苦的经验抵得上千百次的告诫。

6. Throughout life, we rely on small groups of people for love, admiration², respect, moral support and help.

6. 整个一生，我们都有赖于从一些人群中获得友爱、赏识、尊重、道义支持和帮助。

7. He that will not allow his friend to share the prize must not expect him to share the danger.

7. 不肯让朋友共享果实的人，不要指望朋友与他共患难。

8. No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.

8. 任何人自己都不是完整的;他的朋友是他的其余部分。

9. Experience more than sufficiently³ teaches that men govern nothing with more difficult than their tongues.

9. 经验给了我们太多的教训，告诉我们人类最难管制的东西，莫过于自己的舌头。

10. The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

10. 人生最大的教训是要知道即使傻瓜有时候也是对的。

11. When you want knowledge like you want air under water then you will get it.

11. 当你需要知识就像你在水底需要空气时，你准能得到它。

12. There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize.

12. 有的东西比才能稀罕得多，珍贵得多，这就是识别的能力。