A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man; it is what he wants and must have to be good for anything. Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.
Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
Unless a man has considerable skill with and reliance in his weapon, he will not remain cool in the presence of dangerous game close by.