Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter.

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.

Failure means that you would not, or could not, pay for success. Success is a matter of sale. It can (most often) be bought by a large outlay--of hard forethought--of pains--of steadiness--of the golden wisdom coined from experience. But the figure is too high for most of us. We are too poor, or too slothful, to bring the price.

Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.

Indulge in procrastination, and in time yon will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it.

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

Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter.