In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.

Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.

Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker.

Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams. It is so, also, with all intellectual greatness, It is only a question of someone indicating the direction to be followed by so many affluent; not whether he was richly or poorly gifted originally.