There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
Emerson
每个人在受教过程中，总有一天会认识到：妒忌是无知，照搬是自杀。不论好坏，每个人都必接收属于他自己应得的报偿，辽阔的世界里固然充斥着珍馐美味，但是只有从给予他耕耘过的那一片土地里，通过辛苦劳动收获的谷物才富有养分。
艾默生