In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer'd.

Success: The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

The first undertakers in all great attempts commonly miscarry, and leave the advantages of their losses to those that come after them.

Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little.

The deed is everything, the glory nothing.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.

You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune.

Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Success has made failures of many men.

Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them.

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Success is not so much what you are, but rather what you appear to be.

All glory comes from daring to begin.

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.

Success is an accident... well placed.