People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.
There is no waste of time like making excuses.
Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.
London; a nation, not a city.
In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.
Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.