All sorts of persons, and every individual, has a place to fill in the world, and is important in some respects, whether he chooses to be so or not. 各色人等，每一个人，不管选择与否，在世上都有自己的位置，都有自己的价值所在。 --《红字》
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. 幸福来临时，人们往往不去注意。一旦我们有意去追求，幸福就会像高飞的大雁，永远追不到。 --《红字》
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. 一个女人要是不幸聪明得什么都懂，那就必须同时懂得怎么伪装成什么都不懂。 --《傲慢与偏见》
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. 订了婚的女人最可爱了。她什么都满足了，什么忧虑都消散了，她可以大大方方去讨好自己未来的老公，而无需...
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. 女人的思维很有跳跃性：从仰慕到爱慕，从爱慕到结婚都是一眨眼间的事。 --《傲慢与偏见》
Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses. 不信任比信任更顽固，因为它是由感官支撑的。
All the bright, precious things fade so fast. And they don't come back. 那些美好的东西，总是消逝得太快，而且一去不复返。
I am not afraid of storms,for I am learning how to sail my ship. 我不害怕风暴, 因为我正在学习如何乘风破浪。
The most precious thing for a person is life, and life is only once for everyone. A person's life should be spent in this way: looking back on the past, he will not regret for wasting his time, nor will he be ashamed for being mediocre;...
Human life is like a torrent, and it is difficult to stir up beautiful waves without encountering islands and reefs. 人的生命似洪水奔流，不遇着岛屿和暗礁，就难以激起美丽的浪花。 -- Pavel Korchagin 保尔·柯察金