Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.
OuidaWhat is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?
OuidaGenius scorns the power of gold: it is wrong. Gold is the war-scythe on its chariot, which mows down the millions of its foes, and gives free passage to the sun-coursers with which it leaves those heavenly fields of light for the gross battlefields of earth.
Ouida