1.Visits should be short，like a winter day，lest you're too troublesome hasten away.

登门拜访要像冬季的白天一样简短，否则会遭人讨厌被人赶。

2.The proof of gold is fire,the proof of woman,gold;the proof of man, a woman.

检验金子的是烈火，检验女人的是金子，检验男人的则是女人。

3.If you would live with ease,do what you ought, and not what you please.

要想活得轻松自在，时时都要忍痛割爱。

4.All things are cheap to the saving,dear to the wasteful.

节省则样样便宜，浪费则渐渐昂贵。

5.Three may keep a secret，if two of them are dead.

三人难守秘密，除非两人死去。

6.Poverty wants some things,luxury many things,and avarice all things.

贫穷只要一些，奢侈要求很多，贪婪强索一切。

7.Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

早睡早起让你身体健康，钱包鼓，脑灵光。

8.To be humble to superiors is duty，to equals courtesy，to inferiors nobleness.

对上级谦卑迫不得已，对同级谦卑实属有礼，对下级谦卑高贵无比。

9.No eye in a letter,nor hand in a purse,nor ear in the secret of another.

他人信件勿看，他人钱财勿偷，他人秘密勿听。

10.He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees.

生活要想安稳和自在，知道的不全说出口，见到的不妄下评判。