There are two kinds of success: success of distinction and success of satisfaction. Success of distinction means getting rich, or famous, or in some way marked out among your fellows. But this point should not be overlooked: that in this sort of success Chance plays a great part. Good fortune has not all to do with making a prominent person, but it always has something to do with it. On the contrary, with the success of satisfaction, opportunity has nothing whatever to do. You can be happy, strong, efficient, lovable, not ashamed to look at your face in the glass, to draw your wages and to stand before the judgment seat; you can make your life a glad and not a sad affair, and you can do this despite all the gods on Olympus, despite all ill luck, sickness, and calamity, and in face of all the imps of perdition.
