There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Ambition aspires to descend.
Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.
The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
No doubt about it, the higher you achieve, the higher you reach.
I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.
To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.