of a rotter [cruel, stingy person]. Actors who can’t act believe in themselves; and debtors who won’t pay. It would be much truer to say that a man will certainly fail because he believes in himself. Complete self-confidence is not merely a sin; complete self-confidence is a weakness. Believing utterly in one’s self is a hysterical and superstitious belief.…” And to all this my friend the publisher made this very deep and effective reply, “Well, if a man is not to believe in himself, in what is he