No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
Do not do that which others can do as well.
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.