Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.
You may name a bronze statue ‘Liberty,’ or a painted figure in a city hall ‘Commerce,’ or a marble form in a temple ‘Athene’ or ‘Venus;’ but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman.