“Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.”
“It is always the anvil that breaks the hammer, never the other way about.”
“My kinfolks thought more about character than about culture. They said culture could be acquired but character had to be formed. Character had to be hammered into shape like hot iron on an anvil. It had to be molded in the most exact and unrelenting form.”
“Suffer or triumph, be the hammer or the anvil.”
“In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer...”
“I would rather be the hammer than the anvil”