Hope Is A Great Falsifier Of Truth.

Know How To Keep Anticipation Alive: Always Strive To Feed It, By Letting The Much Promise More, And The One Achievement Be The Announcement Only Of A Greater. Put Not All Your Reserves Into The First Throw; The Great Trick Is To Dole Out Strength, And To Dole Out Mind, In Such A Fashion As To Bring Forward Increasingly The Fulfillment Of What Was Expected Of You.

It Is More Offensive To Outshine In Dignity Than In Personal Attractions.

It Is A Great Misfortune To Be Of Use To Nobody; Scarcely Less To Be Of Use To Everybody.

Do Not Show Your Wounded Finger For Everything Will Knock Up Against It.

Aspire Rather To Be A Hero Than Merely Appear One.