Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people I have ever known.
每个人都认为他自己至少具有一种主要的美德，我的美德是：我是我所结识过的少有的几个诚实人中间的一个。

A sense of fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.
人们的善恶感一生下来就有差异。

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
于是我们奋力向前划，逆流向上的小舟，不停地倒退，进入过去。