If you cannot have the great men you have to deal with the little men like me.

You have to prove yourself bigger than the rest of us by doing things better.

A man doesn't fail only because of others, but also because of himself.

You were warned that the chances were all against you in the case that's just been decided, yet you would go on; you were warned that your cousin, Auguste Charron, was in debt, and that his wife was mad to get away from the farm and go West, yet you would take no notice.

Now he has gone, and you have to pay, and your case has gone against you in the Appellate Court besides....