A man lives by thinking about action. A warrior lives by taking action.

一个人靠思考行动来生活。战士的生命在于行动。

A man lives well and happily until he begins to feel unwell. Then he feels worse because the climate allows him no chance of pulling himself together---and then he dies.

一个人活得很好，很快乐，直到他开始感到不舒服。然后他感觉更糟，因为气候不允许他振作起来——然后他死了。

A man living in a place that doesn't change doesn't expect it ever will.

生活在一个不会改变的地方的人，是不会期待它永远改变的。

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.

一个人如果不被书包围，就会失去与现实的联系。

A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.

一个人可能长时间地沉湎于一种思想中，而这种思想可能使他成为阶下囚。

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

一个男人可能是个傻瓜而不知道，但如果他结婚了就不知道了。

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

一个人可能在午餐前是悲观的决定论者，午餐后是对自由意志的乐观信仰者。

A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.

一个男人可能是一个坚强、专注、成功的赚钱者，他对国家的贡献可能只是一个可怕的例子。

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

一个人由于缺乏理智而成为傻瓜，也可能是由于缺乏理智而成为傻瓜。

A man may be born a poet, but he has to make himself an artist as well.

一个人可能天生是诗人，但他也必须使自己成为艺术家。

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

一个人可能太重要以至于他什么都不是。

A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

一个人可能多才多艺，但也可能是一个软弱的诗人。

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.

一个人可以用刺刀为自己建造一个宝座，但他不能坐在上面。

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

人可以用刺刀为自己建造宝座，却不能坐在上面。

A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.

人可以与吃王肉的虫同吃，也可以与吃王肉的鱼同吃。