Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is read more

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

One thing is forever good;
That one thing is Success.

One thing is forever good;
That one thing is Success.

Now, by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on.

Now, by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on.

Be commonplace and creeping, any you attain all things.
[Fr., Mediocre et rampant, et l'on arrive a tout.]

Be commonplace and creeping, any you attain all things.
[Fr., Mediocre et rampant, et l'on arrive a tout.]

Better have failed in the high aim, as I,
Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed
As, read more

Better have failed in the high aim, as I,
Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed
As, God be thanked! I do not.