And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

  • -- William Shakespeare 威廉·莎士比亚

这就是我们的生活,远离了公众的纠缠,在树木中找到了语言,在奔流的小溪中找到了书籍,在石头中找到了布道,在一切事物中找到了美好。

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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

书的好处在于被人阅读。书是由一些符号组成的,这些符号代表着其他符号,而这些符号又代表着事物。如果没有眼睛去阅读,一本书所包含的符号就不会产生任何概念;所以它是哑的。

can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity.

我不明白为什么牧师们每周都要在指定的时间布道,因为从人类的角度讲,灵感是不可能像时钟一样有规律地出现的。

You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

你知道,在我漫长的公众生活中,我发现我没有说过的话从来没有伤害过我。

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

书并不能提供真正的逃避,但它们可以让你的大脑停止自我折磨。

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

公众想要的是激情的形象,而不是激情本身。

Beware of a man of one book.

谨防一心一意的人。

Books are a narcotic.

书籍是麻醉剂。