I make the most of all that comes, And the least of all that goes.

Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.

None of us can help the things life has done to us. They're done before you realize it, and once they're done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you'd like to be, and you've lost your true self forever.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.