I was sure that I was to be killed. I became terribly nervous. I fumbled in my pockets to see if ther were any cigarettes, which had escaped their search. I found one and because of my shaking hands, I could barely get it to my lips. But I had no mat...
Who moved my cheese?is a story about change that takes place in a Maze where four amusing characters look for Cheese.cheese being a metaphor for what we want to have in life, whether it is a job, a relationship, money,a big house, freedom, health, re...
The intimacy between man and Nature began with the birth of man on the earth, and becomes each century more intelligent and far-reaching. To Nature, therefore, we turn as to the oldest aim most influential teacher of our race; from one point of view...
April Days Days of witchery, subtly sweet, When every hill and tree finds heart, When winter and spring like lovers meet In the mist of noon and part - In the April days. Nights when the wood frogs faintly peep Once - twice - and then are still, And...
Work and Pleasure To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real. It is no use starting late in life to say: I will take an interest in this or that. Such an attempt only aggravates the...
On Punctuality A punctual person is in the habit of doing a thing at the proper time and is never late in keeping an appointment. The unpunctual man，on one hand，never does what he has to do at the proper time. He is always ina hurry and in the en...
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and suppleknees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth...
Too Dear for the Whistle When I was a child of seven years old , my friends , on a holiday ,filled my pocket with coppers . I went at once to a shop where they sold toys for children . Being charmed with the sound of a whistle that I hadseen by the w...
Home What makes a home? Love and sympathy and confidence. It is a place where kindly affections exist among all the members of the family. The parents take good care of their children, and the children are interested in the activities of their parent...
Once a circle missed a wedge.The circle wanted to be whole，so it went around looking for its missing piece.But because it was incomplete and therefore could roll only very slowly，it admired the flowers along the way.It chatted with worms.It enjoy...
I chanced to rise very early one particular morning this summer, 夏天的一个清晨，我碰巧起得很早。 and took a walk into the country to divert myself among the fields and meadows, while the green was new, and the flowers in their bloom....
Among the pleasant villages and farms 乡间万物孕育着乐趣， Adjoin'd from each thing met conceived delight 谷物、干草、黄牛、牛乳， The smell of grain, or tended grass, or kine 每一处农家美景， Or dairy, each rural sight,...
And was more startled when I heard a second affirm, with great vehemence, that if the Emperor of Germany was not going off, he should like him better than either of them. 然后，我又听到第二个人斩钉截铁地说，如果德国皇帝不退位...
I was very much pleased and astonished at the glorious show of these gay vegetables, that arose in great profusion on all the banks about us. 看到花团锦簇的美妙画面，我真是又惊又喜。一垄一垄的花儿，密密麻麻地将我笼罩...
He seemed a very plain honest man, and a person of good sense，had not his head been touched with that distemper which Hippocrates calls the Tulippomania;in so much that he would talk very rationally on any subject in the world but a tulip. 他看上去...
