If we are indeed here to perfect and complete our own natures, and grow larger, stronger, and more sympathetic against some nobler career in the future, we had all best bestir ourselves to the utmost while we have the time.
如果我们来到世上,确是为了完善自己的天性,变得更宽广、更坚强、更富同情心,以迎接未来更高尚的事业,那么最好趁还有时间,全力行动起来。
— Robert Louis Stevenson · Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers · Crabbed Age and Youth —