Great Possessions And Great Want Of Them

No One Can Take From Us The Joy Of The First Becoming Aware Of Something, The So-called Discovery. But If We Also Demand The Honor, It Can Be Utterly Spoiled For Us, For We Are Usually Not The First. What Does Discovery Mean, And Who Can Say That He Has Discovered This Or That? After All It's Pure Idiocy To Brag About Priority; For It's Simply Unconscious Conceit, Not To Admit Frankly That One Is A Plagiarist.

It Is Not Doing The Thing We Like To Do, But Liking The Thing We Have To Do, That Makes Life Blessed.

Difficulties Increase The Nearer We Get To The Goal.

For A Man To Achieve All That Is Demanded Of Him He Must Regard Himself As Greater Than He Is.

They Teach In Academies Far Too Many Things, And Far Too Much That Is Useless.