"If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery it wouldn't seem wonderful at all."
The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
"The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course."
