Q1) What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.


Q2) Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, then especially, being free from flatterers.

Q3) One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Q4) One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Q5) To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the best way to bring a fresh mischief on.

Q6) The public have neither shame nor gratitude.

Q7) A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

Q8) Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity.

Q9) In this world a man must be either anvil or hammer.