In this mixed world, if you can find one or two sensible places in a man—above all, if you should find a whole family living together on such pleasant terms—you may surely be satisfied, and take the rest for granted; or, what is a great deal better, boldly make up your mind that you can do perfectly well without the rest; and that ten thousand bad traits cannot make a single good one any the less good.

在这良莠交杂的世界，若能在一个人身上找到一两处可取之处——尤其是看到一家人如此和睦地生活——你便尽可以知足，不再苛求其余；更好的办法，是坦然认定：即使没有其余优点也完全无妨，而一万种缺点也不能使一个优点减损半分。