This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away. – Amelia E. Barr
Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. Theres a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything. – Harry Browne
Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence. – Ralph Waldo Emerson