Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.
Men make opportunity. Every great industrial achievement has been the result of individual effort - the practical development of a dream in the mind of an individual.