毋庸置疑，你依賴於律師和股票？ 紀人的關照，列車員和信號員使你快速從一處轉移到另一處，警察在街道上巡邏以保護你的安全；但是，對於那些你路上偶遇，使你開懷一笑的人，難道你一點兒也不心存感激嗎？紐科姆上校的幫忙，卻使他的朋友破了財；弗雷德·貝哈姆向人借襯衣，卻是一個詭計。但是比起巴恩斯先生，他們兩位倒是更值得結交。雖然福斯塔夫既不莊重又不很誠實，但是我想我能說出一兩個沮喪的巴à 巴。我想，如果沒有他們，這個世界會更好。
哈茲裏特曾提及，與那些懂得賣弄的朋友相比，他對諾思科特的責任感更強，盡管諾思科特對他並未有任何所謂的恩惠之舉，因為他堅持認為，一個好的同伴就是最大的施恩者。我知道世界上有一些人，除非以痛苦和苦難為代價賜予他們恩惠，否則他們便不會有感恩之心。這真是一種無禮的性情。一個人可能會給你寫一封六頁的信，同你漫無邊際地閑談，或者你開心地用半個小時讀他的一篇文章，或許還有所收獲。如果這篇手稿是他用心血寫成的，就像魔鬼的契約一樣，你是否會覺得更有恩於你？如果你的來信者詛咒你的刁難，你真的覺得你就會對他更加感激嗎？樂趣比責任更能讓人受益，因為就像仁慈的品質一樣，由於沒有任何矯飾，能給人加倍的福佑。
忙中偷閑的能力，暗示的是一種廣泛的愛好和強烈的個性。樂趣比責任更能讓人受益，它就像仁慈的品質一樣，沒有任何矯飾，卻能給人加倍的福佑。
無論你的生活如何卑微
However Mean Your Life Is
[美國]亨利·大衛·梭羅/Henry David Thoreau
However mean your life is， meet it and live it； do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life， poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant， thrilling， glorious hours， even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man' s abode； the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there， and have as cheering thoughts， as in a palace. The town' s poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any. Maybe they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving. Most think that they are above being supported by the town； but it oftener happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means， which should be more disreputable. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb， like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things， whether clothes or friends. Turn the old； return to them. Things do not change； we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society. If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days， like a spider， the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me. The philosopher said： "rom an army of three divisions one can take away its general， and put it in disorder； from the man the most abject and vulgar one cannot take away his thought." Do not seek so anxiously to be developed， to subject yourself to many influences to be played on； it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights. The shadows of poverty and meanness gather around us， "and lo！ Creation widens to our view." We are often reminded that if there were bestowed on us the wealth of Croesus， our aims must still be the same， and our means essentially the same. Moreover， if you are restricted in your range by poverty， if you cannot buy books and newspapers， for instance， you are but confined to the most significant and vital experiences； you are compelled to deal with the material which yields the most sugar and the most starch. It is life near the bone where it is sweetest. You are defended from being a trifler. No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher. Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.