What is success? 成功是什么 To laugh often and love much; 笑口常开,爱心用在 To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; 赢得智者的尊重,孩子们的爱戴 To earn the approbation of honest critics And endure the betrayal of false friends; 博得真诚的认可,容忍损友的背叛 To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; 欣赏美好的东西,发现别人的可爱 To give one's self; To leave the world a little better, 学会无私的奉献,给世界增添光彩 Whether by a healthy child, A garden patch, 要么培育出健康的孩子,要么培育出花园一块 Or a redeemed social condition; To have played and laughed with enthusiasm 亦或是改善社会条件,尽情娱乐,笑得畅快 And sung with exultation; To know even one life has breathed easier Because you have lived... 把欢乐的歌唱起来,甚至知道一个生命活得自在,因为你的一路走来 This is to have succeeded. 这就是成功的内涵
Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another; good sense is not conscience, refinement is not humility, nor is largeness and justness of view faith. Philosophy, however enlightened, however profound, gives no command over the passions, no influential motives, no vivifying principles. Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the gentleman. It is well to be a gentleman, it is well to have a cultivated intellect, a delicate taste, a candid, equitable, dispassionate mind, a noble and courteous bearing in the conduct of life--these are the connatural qualities of a large knowledge; they are the objects of a University; I am advocating, I shall illustrate and insist upon them; but still, I repeat, they are no guarantee for sanctity or even for conscientiousness, they may attach to the man of the world, to the profligate, to the heartless, pleasant, alas, and attractive as he shows when decked out in them. Taken by themselves, they do but seem to be what they are not; they look like virtue at a distance, but they are detected by close observers, and on the long run; and hence it is that they are popularly accused of pretense and hypocrisy, not, I repeat, from their own fault, but because their professors and their admirers persist in taking them for what they are not, and are officious in arrogating for them a praise to which they have no claim. Quarry the granite rock with razors, or moor the vessel with a thread of silk, then may you hope with such keen and delicate instruments as human knowledge and human reason to contend against those giants, the passion and the pride of man.