Life being very short, and the quiet hour of it few; we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.-John Ruskin

人生十分短促,寧靜的時間又不多;我們不應(yīng)該浪費(fèi)寶貴的時間去讀毫無價值的書。 -約翰·拉斯金

If well used, books are the best of all things; if abused, among the worst. -R.W.Emerson

如果利用得當(dāng),書籍就是最好的朋友;反之,如果濫用,它就會變成最壞的東西了。 -R.W.愛默生

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries. -Rene Descartes

讀好書,如同與先哲們交談。 -雷內(nèi)·笛卡爾

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

如果一個人傾其所有以求學(xué)問,那么這些學(xué)問是沒有人能拿走的。

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

無知并非純真,而是罪惡。

Isn’t it a happy thing if you review what you have learned on time?

學(xué)而時習(xí)之,不亦樂乎?