We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us.

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.

The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.