We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.
If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!
One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.
With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.
In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs