当我们不作休息，不停地走向幻想时，一幅奇异的画面展现出来：不知疲倦、勇于冒险的先锋。是的，我们永远不会达到目标，甚至目的地根本就不存在。即使活上几百年，具有神的力量，我们也会觉得没有接近目标多少。啊，辛苦的双手！啊，不知疲倦的双脚，并不知道走向何方！你总是觉得，一定能登上某个光辉的山顶，在夕阳下，看到不远的前方黄金国那尖尖的塔。你是处于幸福当中却没有察觉，奋斗胜过得到，真正的成功就是奋斗。
It seems as if a great deal were attainable in a world where there are so many marriages and decisive battles， and where we all， at certain hours of the day， and with great gusto and dispatch， stow a portion of victuals finally and irretrievably into the bag which contains us. And it would seem also， on a hasty view， that the attainment of as much as possible was the one goal of man’s contentious life. And yet， as regards the spirit， this is but a semblance. We live in an ascending scale when we live happily， one thing leading to another in an endless series. There is always a new horizon for onward-looking men， and although we dwell on a small planet， immersed in petty business and not enduring beyond a brief period of years， we are so constituted that our hopes are inaccessible， like stars， and the term of hoping is prolonged until the term of life. To be truly happy is a question of how we begin and not of how we end， of what we want and not of what we have. An aspiration is a joy forever， a possession as solid as a landed estate， a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity. To have many of these is to be spiritually rich. To those who have neither art nor science， the world is a mere arrangement of colors， or a rough footway where they may very well break their shins. It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience， that he is charmed by the look of things and people， and that he wakens every morning with a renewed appetite for work and pleasure. Desire and curiosity are the two eyes through which he sees the world in the most enchanted colors： it is they that make women beautiful or fossils interesting： and the man may squander his estate and come to beggary， but if he keeps these two amulets he is still rich in the possibilities of pleasure. Suppose he could take one meal so compact and comprehensive that he should never hunger any more； suppose him， at a glance， to take in all the features of the world and allay the desire for knowledge； suppose him to do the like in any province of experience—would not that man be in a poor way for amusement ever after？