There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

  • -- Samuel Johnson 塞缪尔·约翰逊

先生,对于人类这种渺小的生物来说,没有什么是微不足道的。正是通过研究小事情,我们获得了尽可能少的痛苦和尽可能多的幸福的伟大艺术。

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One thing I've been doing since I was a little kid and that's score touchdowns so if somebody needs somebody to get in the red zone and do some work, I could probably still do that pretty well.

我从小就一直在做的一件事就是得分触地得分,所以如果有人需要有人进入禁区做一些工作,我可能仍然可以做得很好。

He obliged Cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her little foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her as if it had been made of wax.

他让灰姑娘坐下来,把拖鞋套在她的小脚上,发现它穿起来很舒服,就像用蜡做的一样。

This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.

这种探索,怀疑和动摇,在那里没有什么是明确的,但傲慢的追求。当我还是个孩子的时候,我也有过这样高尚的思想。

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

由于群众总是急于相信某件事,为了他们的利益,没有什么比事实更容易安排的了。