People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore.
Whenever by an unfortunate occurrence of circumstances an opposition is compelled to support the government, the support should be given with a kick and not a caress and should be withdrawn at the first available moment.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed, but the spirit in which we face them, that constitutes our comfort.