A life will be successful or not according to as the power of accommodation is equal to or unequal to the strain of fusing and adjusting internal and external changes． Samuel Butler ，The Way of All Flesh 生活是否成功依赖于一个人的适应能力能否胜任融合和调节内部及外界变化这一重担。 塞绍尔·小巴特勒；《众生之路》 Adapt or perish ，now as ever ，is Nature’s inexorable imperative． H ．G． Wells ，Mind at the End of Its Tether 适者生，不适者灭，这是自然界一如既往、永不变更的规律。 赫·乔·威尔斯：《黔驴计穷》 If you want to slip Into a round hole ，you must make a ball of yourself． George Eliot ，The Mill on the Floss 你想要钻入一个圆洞，你就必须将自己变为球形。 乔治·爱略特：《弗洛斯河上的磨坊》 Always we like those who admire us ，but we do not always like those whom we admire． La Rochefoucauld ，Maxims 我们总是喜欢那些赞赏我们的人，但不一定喜欢我们赞赏的人。 拉罗什福科：《道德警句集》 Let every man be respected as an inpidual and no man idolized ．It is an irony of fate that I myself have been the recipient of excessive admiration and reverence from my fellow-beings ，through no fault ，and no merit of my own． Einstein ，Ideas and Opinions 让每个人作为个人受到尊重，但不要让任何人成为偶像。我从众人那儿接受了过多的尊崇和敬意，这真是命运的嘲讽，因这既不是由于我的缺点，也不是出于我的美德。 爱因斯坦：《思想和见解》 Natural abilities are like natural plants ，that need pruning by study, and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large ，except they be bounded In by experience． Bacon ，Of Studies ，Essays 天生的能力好像天然生成的植物，必须通过学习加以修整；然而学习本身如若不由实践去约束，必然方向纷杂而漫无目的＂。 培根：《随笔·论学习》 As many languages as he has ，as many friends， as many arts and trades ，so many times is he a man． Emerson ，Culture，The Conduct of Life 竭尽全力掌握各种语言，结交各式朋友，精通各类技艺及行业，如此努力方能成为一个完整的人。 爱默生：《处世之道·论文化》 Seek not proud riches， but such as thou mayest get justly ，use soberly ，distribute cheerfully ，and leave contentedly． Bacon ，Of Riches ，Essays 不要寻求令人称羡的财富，应当追求这样的境界：对财富正当地获取，清醒地使用，愉快地施舍并能知足地放弃。 培根：《随笔·论财富》 In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action． Aristotle ，Nicomachean Ethics 在人类生命的竞技场，荣誉与奖赏眷顾善于行动的人。 亚里士多德：《伦理学》 A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much ，and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all． Georges Bernanos ，The Last Essays of Georges Bernanos 思想倘若不引发行动则意义不大，而行动倘若不是源于思想则毫无意义。 A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death ．It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain ，but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being． William Hazllit ,Table Talk 充满行动和危险的生活将减缓对死亡的恐惧。它不仅赋予我们承受痛苦的刚毅，而且时刻引导我们把握飘忽不定的现在。