Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.
Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.
The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.