I've said sae muckle aboot myself in this book that I'm a wee bit reluctant tae say mair.

But still, there's a thing I've thought about a good deal of late, what wi' all this talk of hoo easy some folk have it, and how hard others must work.

I think there's no one makes a success of any sort wi'oot hard work--and wi'oot keeping up hard work, what's mair.

I ken that's so of all the successful men I've ever known, all over the world.

They work harder than maist folk will ever realize, and it's just why they're where they are.
Noawadays it's almost fashionable to think that any man that's got mair than others has something wrong about him.