With ... success I was pushed forward at a dizzy pace. My name spread like smoke in an airless room.
’T is man’s to fight, but Heaven’s to give success.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
The successful man will see just so much more than his neighbours as they will be able to see too when it is shown them, but not enough to puzzle them.
After you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate.
