To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
W. Somerset MaughamWhat makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
W. Somerset MaughamYou've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father and mother if I allowed you to expose yourself to such temptation.' Well, I know I'm not a Christian and I'm beginning to doubt whether I'm a gentleman,' said Philip.
W. Somerset Maugham