The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

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The secret anniversaries of the heart.

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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

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