使用名词化结构（destruction, valuable things），语气客观且具有定义性质。
A great building is always piled up one piece of wood and one stone at a time; why shouldn't we do this one piece of wood and one stone? I often do some trivial things for this reason.
One should try one's best to delete any words, sentences, or paragraphs that are dispensable, without the slightest regret.
Facts are unfeeling things; they can shatter empty talk to pieces.
Tragedy shows people the destruction of valuable things in life, while comedy exposes the worthlessness of worthless things.
Blood nourishes the strong grass on the central plain, and the cold freezes the earth to make spring blossoms bloom.
One is content in life with just one bosom friend; in this world, one should regard such a friend as sharing the same heart and soul.
With a fierce brow, I defy the thousand-fingered scorn; bowing my head, I serve as the ox for the children.
China has always had few heroes who fail, few resilient rebels, few warriors who dare to fight alone, and few mourners who dare to weep over traitors; when the sign of victory appears, they swarm together, but when the sign of defeat appears, they flee in droves.
Dissatisfaction is the wheel that moves upward, capable of carrying those who are not self-satisfied forward.
May all Chinese youth shake off the cold air, just keep moving upward, and need not listen to the words of self-abandoners.
It is ordinary for literati to write and farmers to dig with hoes. But if, at the time of taking a photo, a literatus insists on acting like a rough laborer, posing with a hoe and a straw hat, or a farmer holds a book under the willow, pretending to be a scholar in 'Reading in the Deep Willow,' it becomes nauseating.
Hardness is not necessarily the mark of a true hero; how can loving one's children be unmanly?
Actually, the style of prose can be quite casual. Having flaws is not a problem. Forced letters and diaries may also have flaws, and once a flaw appears, it becomes irreparable. It is better to forget about flaws than to guard against them.
The more difficult it is, the more one must do it. Reform has never been smooth sailing.
If one only reads books, one becomes a bookshelf.
巨大的建筑，总是一木一石叠起来，我们何尝做做这一木一石呢？我时常做些零碎事，就是为此。
要竭力将可有可无的字、句、段删去，毫不可惜。
事实是毫无情面的东西，它能将空言打得粉碎。
悲剧将人生的有价值的东西毁灭给人看，喜剧将那无价值的撕破给人看。
血沃中原肥劲草，寒凝大地发春华。
人生得一知己足矣，斯世当以同怀视之。
横眉冷对千夫指，俯首甘为孺子牛。
中国一向就少有失败的英雄，少有韧性的反抗，少有敢单身鏖战的武人，少有敢抚哭叛徒的吊客；见胜兆则纷纷聚集，见败兆则纷纷逃亡。
不满是向上的车轮，能够载着不自满的人前进。
愿中国青年都摆脱冷气，只是向上走，不必听自暴自弃者的话。
文人作文，农人掘锄，本是平平常常的，若照相之际，文人偏要装做粗人，玩什么“荷锄带笠图”；农夫则在柳下捧一本书，装作“深柳读书图”之类，就要令人肉麻。
无情未必真豪杰，怜子如何不丈夫？
散文的体裁，其实是大可以随便的。有破绽也不妨。做作的写信和日记，恐怕也还不免有破绽，而一有破绽，便破灭到不可收拾了。与其防破绽，不如忘破绽。
愈艰难，就愈要做。改革，是向来没有一帆风顺的。
倘只看书，便变成书橱。