1. When Heaven is about to confer a great responsibility upon a person, it will first pain their mind and will, tire their sinews and bones, starve their body and skin, empty and impoverish their person, and confound and disrupt their actions, so as to move their heart, toughen their nature, and augment that which they are incapable of. 2. Thoroughgoing materialists are fearless. 3. The road is tortuous; the future is bright. 4. To be struck by the blows of fate until the head is broken and bleeding, yet still not turn back.