gives.

The finest tree stands off by itself in the open plain. Its
branches spread wide. It is a complete tree, better than the
cramped tree in the crowded forest.

The animal to be admired is not that which runs in herds, the
gentle browsing deer or foolish sheep thinking only as a fraction
of the flock, incapable of personal independent direction. It's
the lonely prowling lion or the big black leopard with the whole
world for his private field that is worth looking at.

The man who grows up in a herd, deer-like, thinking with the
herd, acting with the herd, rarely amounts to anything. ----

Do you want to succeed? Grow in solitude, work, develop in
solitude, with books and thoughts and nature for friends. Then,
if you want the crowd to see how fine you are, come back to it
and boss it if it will let you.

Constant craving for indiscriminate company is a sure sign of
mental weakness.

Schopenhauer--a sour genius, BUT a genius--speaks contemptuously
of the negroes herded in small rooms unable to get "enough of one
another's snub-nose company." ----

If you enter a village or small town and want to find the man or
youth of ability, do you look for him leaning over the village
pool table, sitting on the grocery store boxes, lounging in the