A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below. The man's hands were behind his back, the wrists bound with a cord. A rope closely encircled his neck. It was attached to a stout cross-timber above his head and the slack fell to the level of his knees. Some loose boards laid upon the sleepers supporting the metals of the railway supplied a footing for him and his executioners--two private soldiers of the Federal army, directed by a sergeant who in civil life may have been a deputy sheriff. At a short remove upon the same temporary platform was an officer in the uniform of his rank, armed. He was a captain. A sentinel at each end of the bridge stood with his rifle in the position known as "support," that is to say, vertical in front of the left shoulder, the hammer resting on the forearm thrown straight across the chest--a formal and unnatural position, enforcing an erect carriage of the body. It did not appear to be the duty of these two men to know what was occurring at the center of the bridge; they merely blockaded the two ends of the foot planking that traversed it. Beyond one of the sentinels nobody was in sight; the railroad ran straight away into a forest for a hundred yards, then, curving, was lost to view. Doubtless there was an outpost farther along. The other bank of the stream was open ground--a gentle acclivity topped with a stockade of vertical tree trunks, loopholed for rifles, with a single embrasure through which protruded the muzzle of a brass

A man must not be bound by his own age. Nor should he painstakingly admit existence of the problem of age.On the contrary, he should always keep his curiosity to the world and maintain enthusiasm for his interests.
一个人不要被自己的年龄所束缚，也不要刻意地去承认年龄问题的存在。倒是应该始终保持住自己对于这个世界的好奇心和对自己兴趣的热情

I never believe in so-called freedom of laziness. The freedom I look forward to is a broader life realized by diligence and endeavor. Only that kind of freedom is precious and valuable. I believe in Ten Thousand Hours Theory, and I never believe in inspirations coming from nowhere and accomplishments you sit back and wait for to come. Be a free and self-disciplined person, and live earnestly with a determination that your dreams are bound to come true.
我从来不相信什么懒洋洋的自由。我向往的自由是通过勤奋和努力实现的更广阔的人生。那样的自由才是珍贵的、有价值的；我相信一万小时定律，我从来不相信天上掉馅饼的灵感和坐等的成就。做一个自由又自律的人，靠势必实现的决心认真地活着。