Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.

  • -- Philip Dormer 菲利普·多默

礼貌是在一个合理的时间内回信,就像它是在一个鞠躬,立即返回。

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It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

只有那些一次只专注于一件事的人才能在这个世界上取得进步。伟大的男人或女人永远不会走出他或她的专长,或愚蠢地浪费他或她的个性。

The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.

科学家和文学家一样,也很容易只从抽象的角度来看待人类,只从我们这个复杂的、多方面的存在的一面来考虑问题。

I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well.

我一直在画画。画画是我的支柱。我不认为画家必须会画画,我只是认为如果你画画,你最好画好。

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

字母像酒;声音若坚固,存而不坏。一个人放下书信就像他放下酒窖一样。