But with it all, there is so much in life that cannot be reckoned with, that each one of us must perforce, find his own road to success or failure, and no one has really failed, until the undertaker him over.
So I have offered that which seemed best for me, as proved in the roundup. Nor should we disdain small beginnings, nor be ashamed to save.
There is no gain so certain as that which proceeds from the proper use of what you already have.
Now let us seriously consider the German. Suppose that a German physician starts in embryo, so to speak, to save and lay aside for the future only 10,000 marks a day, a mere trifle of course-and does so until he is a old as I am. Think of his power for dissipation; why, were he so minded, he could proudly step into the nearest “Kneip” and purchase a glass of ambrosial suds and pay for it!.
No, indeed, we should never belittle the day of small German beginnings!.
And if in this assembled audience here present, there may be one or more who presumably at least, like myself, have long shed their milk teeth, and feel that they have arrived at the turning point in lifes pathway, and if at times their cerebrations incline to pessimism and they are disposed to bid farewell to hope, let them turn to old Homer and read what he says about it in his “Iliad”:.
“No living man can send me to the Shades before my time. No man of women born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny”.
And swearing by the hip pocket of Hippocrates; by the socks of Socrates; and by the Ha has of dear old Hahnemann; so also say I!.
