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.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter.

A successful career has been full of blunders.

Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.

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

You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.