．務必一直保持忙碌，如此不論什麼時候魔鬼找上門，都會發現你沒空。
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

．臉孔是心靈的鏡子；眼睛不必言語，便已招認了內 心的祕密。
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

．會中斷的友情，絕不是真正的友情。
The friendship that can cease has never been real.

．朋友要長久尋覓，難以找到，且不易維繫。
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

．別人的疤痕，當讓你提高警覺。
The scars of others should teach us caution.

．年過七十，就像參戰。所有的朋友不是風燭殘年， 就是已然凋零，我們倖存於陣亡者與彌留者之間， 一如身處戰地。
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

．愛不是用買的，情感無價。
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

．他們談吐像天使，但生活得像凡人。
They talk like angels but they live like men.