You must take the world as you find it, with a struggle to be something more honest than those around you. Phineas, as he preached himself this sermon, declared to himself that they who attempted more than this flew too high in the clouds to be of service to men an women upon the earth

And, above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.

It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.