1. but man is not made for defeat. a man can be destroyed but not defeated.
　　人不是因失败而生。你可以被摧毁他但是不能被打败他。
　　2. all good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
　　好书都有一个共同点——它们都比真实事件还真实。
　　3. all things truly wicked start from innocence.
　　所有邪恶的事一开始都是纯洁的。
　　4. courage is grace under pressure.
　　勇气是压力之下的优雅风度。
　　5. fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
　　人们对死亡的恐惧是与财富的增长成正比的。
　　6. happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing i know.
　　聪明人的快乐，是我所知道的最稀少的东西。
　　7. if a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. the dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
　　如果一个作家对他写的东西了解的很多的话，他反而会有所遗漏。冰山的可贵之处在于只有九分之一的部分是浮在水面之上的。
　　8. i learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
　　我懂了一个道理：永远不要倒空我的创作之井，但当创作之井还有一些水的时候应该停止，然后让夜晚补给它的泉水自行将其注满。
　　9. it’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. let them think you were born that way.
　　你学会如何写作与他们无关。要让他们觉得你生来就会写作。
　　10. once we have a war there is only one thing to do. it must be won. for defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
　　每当我们开始一场战争只有一件事能做。那就是赢得战争。因为失败所带来的后果比由战争引起的任何一件事都要可怕。

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