Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly. 

    不要尋求令人稱羨的財富，應當追求這樣的境界：對財富正當地獲取，清醒地使用，愉快地施舍并能知足地放棄。 

    It is impossible to love and be wise.  

    要戀愛而又要理智是不可能的。

    This passion hath his floods, in very times of weakness; which are great prosperity, and great adversity; though this latter hath been less observed: both which times kindle love, and make it more fervent, and therefore show it to be the child of folly    

    當人心最軟弱的時候，愛情最容易入侵，那就是當人得意春風，忘乎所以和處境窘困孤獨凄零的時候，雖然后者未必能得到愛情。人在這樣的時候最急于跳入愛情的火焰中由此可見，“愛情”實在是“愚蠢”的兒子。

    In beauty, that of favor, is more than that of color; and that of decent and gracious motion, more than that of favor 

    形體之美要勝于顏色之美，而優雅行為之美又勝于形體之美

    There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but that he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth is griefs to his friends, but he grieveth the less.   

    與友分享歡樂者,無不歡樂倍增;與友分擔哀傷者,無不哀傷減半 

    Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance     

    美猶如盛夏的水果，是容易腐爛而難保持的，世上有許多美人，她們有過放蕩的青春，卻迎受著愧悔的晚年。

    Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.         

    天生的能力好像天然生成的植物，必須通過學習加以修整；然而學習本身如若不由實踐去約束，必然方向紛雜而漫無目的。 

    Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set  

    美德好比寶石，在樸素背景的襯托下反而更華麗。

    Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.  

    閱讀使人充實，交談使人機智，寫作使人精確。

    Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtitle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend   

    讀史使人明智，讀詩使人靈秀，數學使人周密，科學使人深刻，倫理學使人莊重，邏輯修辭之學使人善辯：凡有所學，皆成性格

    Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, fitter for new projects than for settled business

    年輕人適合發明甚于評價，適合執行而甚于決策；適合從事新項目甚于固定職業