1. Diligence redeems stupidity.勤能補拙。

2. Achievement is founded on diligence and wasted upon recklessness.業(yè)精于勤荒于嬉。

3. A lazy youth，a lousy age.少時懶惰老來苦。

4. Economy is the art of making the most of life.節(jié)約是把生活盡量巧安排的藝術。

5. Contentment is natural wealth，luxury is artificial poverty.知足是天然的財富，奢侈是人為的貧困。

6. Wealth is a slave to the wise，a master to the fool.財富是聰明人的奴隸，是蠢人的主子。

7. Where there is precaution，there is no danger.有備無患。

8. Always be true in word and resolute in deed.言必信，行必果。

9. Happy is the man that finds wisdom，and the man that gets understanding.求知者快樂，被理解者幸福。

10. A good conscience is a continual feast.問心無愧天天樂。

11. Virtue is a jewel of great price.美德乃無價之寶。

12. It is not the gay coat that makes the gentleman.君子在德不在衣。

13. Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.感恩是精神高尚的標志。

14. To know oneself is wisdom，to forget oneself is folly.自知之明是智慧，忘乎所以是愚蠢。

15. Correct the mistakes if you have committed them，and avoid them if you have not.有則改之，無則加勉。

16. A modest man frequently ponders over his mistakes；a conceited man only gossips about other?蒺s errors.謙者常思己過，驕者只論人非。

17. A cautious mind is the half of wisdom.謹慎小心近于明智。

18. He that praises himself spatters himself.自我標榜等于自我誹謗。

19. Complete sincerity can affect even metal and stone.精誠所至，金石為開。

20. Example is better than precept.身教勝于言教。

21. Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl.近朱者赤，近墨者黑。

22. A friend is known in necessity.患難見真情。

23. A hedge between keeps friendship green.交友有度，友誼常青。/君子之交淡如水。

24. A good man terminates a friendship without rancour.君子絕交不記仇。

25. A single spark can start a prairie fire.星星之火，可以燎原。

26. One strand of silk doesn?蒺t make a thread；one tree doesn?蒺t make a forest.單絲不成線，獨木不成林。

27. Many hands make light work.眾人拾柴火焰高。

28. There is no friend so faithful as a good book.最忠實的朋友莫過于一本好書。

29. Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.書籍乃儲積智慧之不滅明燈。

30. That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.好書開卷引人入勝，終卷使人獲益。