原文：
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.
譯文：
正是因爲不停地追求進取，我們才感到生活幸福。一件事完成後，另一件隨之而來，如此連綿不絕，永無止境。對於往前看的`人來說，眼前總有一番新天地。雖然我們蝸居於這顆小行星上，整日忙於鎖事且生命短暫，但我們生來就有不盡的希望，如天上繁星，遙不可及。只要生命猶在，希望便會不止。真正的幸福在於怎樣開始，而不是如何結束，在於我們的希翼，而並非擁有。
