IDEAL 理想篇

Do not, for one repulse^{1, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.
不要只因一次失敗，就舍棄你原來決心想達到的目的。}

Don't part with your illusions, When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
不要舍棄你的幻想。當幻想沒了將來，你還可以存活，但你雖生猶死。（

I want to bring out the secrets of nature and apply them for the happiness of man, I don't know of any better service to offer for the short time we are in the world，
我想揭示大自然的秘密，用來造福人類。我覺得，在大家的短暫一生中，最好的貢獻莫過于此了。

Ideal is the beacon^{2. Without ideal, there is no secure direction; without direction, there is no life.
理想是指路明燈。沒理想，就沒堅定的方向；沒方向，就沒生活。}

If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
冬季來了，春季還會遠嗎？

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
假如你懷疑自己，那樣你的立足點確實不穩定了。

If you would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not let yourselves carried aloft;do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads，
假如你想走到高處，就要用我們的兩條腿！不要讓其他人把你抬到高處；不要坐在其他人的背上和頭上。

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest, but there is seldom any money in them.
就是在大家媽媽的膝上，大家獲得了大家的最高尚、最真誠和最遠大的理想，但里面極少有任何資金。

Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.
生活沒目的就像航海沒指南針。

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully 19 have been kindness, beauty and truth，
有的理想曾為大家引過道路，并不斷給我新的勇氣以欣然面對生活，那些理想就是真、善、美。

The important thing in life is to have a great aim , and the determination to attain^{3 it.
生活要緊的事情就是確定一個偉大的目的，并決心達成它。}

The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds，
具備新想法的人在其想法達成之前是個怪人。

The only limit to our realization^{4 of tomorrow will be our doubts of today，
達成明天理想的唯一障礙是今天的疑慮。}

When an end is lawful^{5 and obligatory6, the indispensable means to is are also lawful and obligatory，
假如一個目的是正當而需要做的，則達到這個目的的必要方法也是正當而需要采取的。}