Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

-- Samuel Richardson 塞缪尔·理查森

谦卑是一种优雅，它在高尚的环境中闪耀光芒，但在卑微的环境中却无法同样闪耀光芒，因为一个人在卑微的环境中可能已经过于谦卑了。

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Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.

恩典是我们每一个人每天都能得到的——我们属灵的每日粮——但我们必须记得带着感恩的心去求，不要担心明天是否有足够的食物。

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I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.

我小时候得了严重的疾病——有点像脊髓脑膜炎——住院三个月。后来，我因为先前存在的健康状况而无法投保。

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I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.

我希望我的名字是布莱恩，因为有时人们会拼错我的名字，叫我布莱恩。这就像免费的赞美，你甚至不需要聪明地去注意它。

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Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country.

乙醇是一种主要的高性能燃料。它具有巨大的环境效益，是我国能源独立的重要组成部分。

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What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

我们所知道的是，莎士比亚用英语给一个年轻人写了也许是最杰出的充满激情的爱情诗。

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It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.

在婚姻中，男人回家太晚是有风险的，但如果他回家太早，有时会带来更大的风险。

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I hope that my story, I hope that my life is... an encouragement for people, especially in Brooklyn. I feel humbled and blessed.

我希望我的故事，我希望我的生活是…对人们的鼓励，尤其是在布鲁克林。我感到谦卑和幸福。

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

没有比这更令人厌恶的景象出现在一个老人身上，他不愿离开这个已经离开他的世界。

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I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

我无法想象一个奖赏和惩罚他所创造的对象的上帝，他只是人类弱点的反映。

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Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

你应该善良，甚至迷信，在遵守你的诺言，因此在作出它们时同样谨慎。

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Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.

谦逊不是懦弱。温柔不是软弱。谦卑和温柔的确是精神上的力量。

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I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

无论在哪里，我看到的都是神秘和复杂，我从来没有遇到过一个逻辑严密的人。

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Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

艺术是大自然的右手。后者只给了我们生命，前者造就了我们人类。

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Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

优雅被定义为灵魂内在和谐的外在表现。

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The sun shines on those who are standing before it shines on the people kneeling under them.

太阳照在身前的人身上，也照在身下的人身上。

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Of all the forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

在所有谨慎的形式中，谨慎的爱情可能是对真正的幸福最致命的。

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

在任何事情上追求完美的艺术家，在任何事情上都无法达到完美。

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

优雅而快乐地变老是一种罕见而又困难的成就。

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The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.

你的恩典若不加增，就必减少了。

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Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

婚姻;还没有发明指南针的大海。

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Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.

感谢那些已经在路上的未知祝福。

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Success and failure are equally disastrous.

成功和失败同样是灾难性的。

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Insight is the first condition of Art.

洞察力是艺术的首要条件。

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Pictures must not be too picturesque.

图画不能画得太生动。

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I'm retiring because my time is up.

我退休了，因为我的时间到了。

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I'm kind of an antsy person.

我是个有点坐立不安的人。

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Shame is Pride’s cloak.

羞耻是骄傲的外衣。

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Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

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