Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate read more

Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that process gain strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it,.

I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.

I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline.

Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline.

With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.

With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.

We should be lenient in our judgment, because often the mistakes of others would have been ours had we had read more

We should be lenient in our judgment, because often the mistakes of others would have been ours had we had the opportunity to make them.

I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.

I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some read more

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by read more

It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!