A successful career has been full of blunders.

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

You cannot win without sacrifice.

A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.

The longer I live, the more deeply am I convinced that that which makes the difference between one person and another-between the weak and the powerful, the great and the insignificant-is energy-invisible determination.

In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him

The fact is - nothing comes, at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.