Chapter 1 Time时间 2
Today is the first day of the rest of your life. 2
Everything has its time. 3
Don’t cry because it is over， smile because it happened. 4
It is no use crying over spilt milk. 5
Every tide has its ebb. 6
One of these days is none of these days. 8
Lose an hour in the morning， and you will spend all day looking for it. 9
Idle folk have the least leisure. 10
Gather your rosebuds while you may. 11
Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today. 12
One today is worth two tomorrows. 13
Don’t waste life in doubts and fears. 14
A lazy youth， a lousy age. 15
Time and tide wait for no man. 16
Men talk of killing time， while time quietly kills them. 17
Age is a matter of feeling， not of years. 18
You cannot step twice into the same river. 19
I’m not afraid of tomorrow， for I have seen yesterday and I love today. 21
The farther backward you can look， the farther forward you are likely to see. 22
No man is rich enough to buy back his past. 24
Time is the only capital for those who possess nothing but intelligence. 25
Chapter 2 Life人生 28
The sea has fish for every man. 28
Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. 29
Every cloud has a silver lining. 30
Every man is the architect of his own fortune. 31
The longest night will have an end. 32
Better late than never. 33
Misfortunes tell us what fortune is. 34
Goals determine what you are going to be. 35
Great hopes make great man. 36
Complaints are always negative numbers in human life. 37
Life consists of unending cycle of happiness and pain. 39
There is nothing permanent except change. 40
Life is long if you know how to use it. 41
Plain living and high thinking. 42
Variety is the spice of life. 44
The best things in life are free. 46
Chapter 3 Self-Cultivation修养 48
The good seaman is known in bad weather. 48
Pride comes before a fall. 49
When you judge others you condemn yourself. 50
The wise man is always a good listener. 51
One flower makes no garland. 52
Promise is debt. 53
No way is impossible to courage. 54
The used key is always bright. 55
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted. 56
When your will is ready， your feet are light. 57
Patience is the remedy for every trouble. 59
Good temper is the best coat for any man in social activities. 61
Anger is a wind， which blows out the lamp of the mind. 62
One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop perseverance. 63
Behavior is a mirror in which everyone shows his image. 65
To err is human， to forgive is divine. 67
Fine character is superior to wisdom. 69
Better a frank denial than unwilling compliance. 70
A bad workman quarrels with his tools. 71
A fault confessed is half redressed. 72
Chapter 4 Success成功 74
You have to believe in yourself.That’s the secret of success. 74
A bad beginning makes a bad ending. 75
Adversity leads to prosperity. 76
Keeping is harder than winning. 77
Necessity is the mother of invention. 78
While there is life there is hope. 79
Heaven helps those who help themselves. 80
No road of flowers leads to glory. 81
Weak men wait for opportunities， strong men make them. 82
Opportunity comes often to the man who is ready for it. 83
He who laughs last， laughs best. 84
If at first you don’t succeed， try， try again. 86
In unity there is strength. 87
No pain， no gain. 88
Rome wasn’t built in a day. 89
Self-trust is the first secret of success. 91
Self-conquest is the greatest of victories. 93
Nothing ventured， nothing gained. 94
Final success often comes in the last five minutes. 95
To be willing is to be able. 96
Never do things by halves. 97
All things are difficult before they are easy. 98
Chapter5 Wisdom智慧 100
He who questions nothing learns nothing 100
Better to ask the way than go astray. 101
No man is born wise. 102
It is easy to be wise after the event. 103
The proof of the pudding is in the eating. 104
Two heads are better than one. 105
Experience is a school from which one can never graduate. 106
He that walks with wise men shall be wise. 107
Brevity is the soul of wit. 109
Wisdom will be exhausting if not used. 110
An ounce of a man’s own wit is worth a ton of other people’s. 111
A wise man likes to learn， while a fool likes to teach others. 112
Sloth turns the edge of wit. 113
To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. 114
Find excuses for others but never for yourself. 115
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. 116
Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand. 118
Wit once bought is worth twice taught. 119
Doubt is the key of knowledge. 120
A Jade of all trades is master of none. 121
Actions speak louder than words. 122
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. 123
Chapter 6 Philosophy哲理 126
First impressions are half the battle. 126
Step by step the ladder is ascended. 127
Constant dropping wears away the stone. 128
Every extremity is a fault. 129
Still waters run deep. 130
Many a little makes a mickle. 131
Beauty is but skin-deep. 132
There is no rose without a thorn. 133
Every shoe fits not every foot. 134
The truth is always the strongest argument. 135
Knowledge rests upon not only truth but also errors. 137
Prejudice is the child of ignorance. 138
All is not gold that glitters. 139
The landscape belongs to the man who looks at it. 141
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. 143
He who follows two hares is sure to catch neither. 145
The bough that bears most， hangs lowest. 146
Beauty is truth， truth beauty. 148
Chapter 7 Friendship友谊 150
The only way to have a friend is to be one. 150
A friend without faults will never be found. 151
A trouble shared is a trouble halved. 152
No road is long with good company. 153
A friend in need is a friend indeed. 154
A friend who shares is a friend who cares. 155
All are not friends that speak us fair. 156
Suspicion is the poison of true friendship. 158
Friendship is a kind of equality of harmony. 159
A friend is a second self. 161
Many a friend is better than a lot of wealth. 163
Friends are families you choose for yourself. 164
A life without a friend is a life without sunshine. 165
A friend to all is a friend to none. 166
Those who praise us behind our backs are our good friends. 167
We should behave to our friends as we should expect our friends to behave to us. 168
Slow help is no help 169
A friend is not so soon gotten as lost. 171
Friendship is like wine.It gets better as it grows older. 172
A man should keep his friendship in constant repair. 173
Chapter 8Love·Marriage·Family爱情·婚姻·家庭 176
There is no remedy for love but to love more. 176
Hasty love， soon cold. 177
Evety Jack has his Jill. 178
Love is blind. 179
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. 180
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. 181
Love can turn the cottage into a golden palace. 182
Love is a chord m life， not a solo. 183
Trust is virtue of love. 184
True love never grows old. 185
Love means firmness. 186
Love is not just looking at each other， it’s looking in the same direction. 187
Love built on beauty， soon as beauty， dies. 188
Love makes the world go round. 189
Love is not only a sentiment but also an art. 191
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. 193
There is no perfect marriage without love. 195
We never know the love of the parents until we become parents ourselves. 196
Lack of parental love makes no full men. 197
He is the happiest， be the King or peasant， who finds peace in his home. 199
Be it ever so humble， there is no place like home 200
Chapter 9 Happiness幸福 202
Happy is the man who is living by his hobby. 202
All happiness is in the mind. 203
Enough is as good as a feast. 204
Happiness takes no account of time. 205
Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it. 206
Man is the artificer of his own happiness. 207
The real happiness of this world is not to take， but to give. 208
Happiness is not a goal， it is a by-product. 210
Anticipating pleasure is also a pleasure. 212
We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine. 213
The secret of happiness is let your interests be as wide as possible. 215
Happiness is always a rebound from hard work. 216
That which was bitter to endure may be sweet to remember. 217
He who seeks only for applause from outside has all his happiness in another’s keeping. 219
Blessed is he who expects nothing， for he shall never be disappointed. 221
The only way to multiply happiness is to share it. 222
Virtue alone is happiness. 224
Chapter 10 Hfealth健康 226
Many dishes make many diseases. 226
Happiness lies， first of all， in health. 227
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. 228
The first wealth is health. 229
A light heart lives long. 230
Without health， no pleasure can be tasted by man. 231
Sleep is the nature’s soft nurse. 232
The best sauce in the world is hunger. 233
Life lies in physical exercise. 234
Health is never valued until the sickness comes. 235
Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it. 236
Music is the medicine of a breaking heart. 238
Alternating this with that is a way to have a rest. 239
When you cannot find time for a rest， it is high time you needed a rest. 241
Early to bed and early to rise， makes a man healthy and wise. 243
The best way to keep fit is to keep a heart young. 244
To wish to be well is a part of becoming well. 245
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. 246