Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
W. Somerset MaughamThe author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so.
W. Somerset MaughamYou Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing for it; the moment we have it we spend it, sometimes well, sometimes ill, but we spend it. Money is nothing to us; it's merely the symbol of success. We are the greatest idealists in the world; I happen to think that we've set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.
W. Somerset MaughamSo long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall.
W. Somerset Maugham