Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
Good and bad men are less than they seem.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
How success changes the opinion of men!