Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly. – Malcolm Bradbury
Half the failures in life arise from pulling in the horse as he is leaping. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. – Booker T. Washington
