To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.
Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.
It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.
Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.
All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.