Bessie-isms:

*You will always have a large crowd on hand, eager to share the fruits of your industry when you succeed. Ignore them, and share with those who were present at your journey’s beginning, and who made the long march with you to its completion.

*Those who most boast of their accomplishments and talents usually have few of either to crow about.

Quotable:

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he accumulated during the first half.

Fyodor Dostoevsky