But, if this world is not merely a bad joke, life a vulgar flare amid the cool radiance of the stars, and existence an empty laugh braying across the mysteries, if there intimations of something behind and behind are mot evil humor born of madden us ;if, in a word, beauty means omething, yet we must not seek to interpret the meaning .
——From New Concept English (Book 4, Lesson 29)
但是，即使这个世界不仅仅是个拙劣的玩笑，生命不仅仅是星体交织的寒光中的一点平庸的火花。人生也不仅仅是喧噪于神秘之乡的空虚的一笑；即使这一切发自那既不渴望也不可及的某种事物的启示，不是由于内在的失调而迸发的邪恶之念，也不是魔鬼用来嘲弄和激怒我们的奇谈怪论，一句话，徜若美具有某种意义,我们还是不要试图去了解释它的意义为好。
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity , of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease ,This often exits in a man of 60more than a boy of 20.Nobody grows merely by a number of years, we grow old by deserting our idea .
——By Samuel Erman
Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing childlike appetite of what"s next and the joy of the game of living .In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station, so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from the infinite, so long as you are young．
——By Samuel Erman
An individual human existence should be like a river-small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being.
——From New Concept English (Book 4)
Years may wrinkle the skin，but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul．Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust．
——By Samuel Erman
