Charles Victor Cherbuliez Quotes

CHERBULIEZ, Charles Victor Quotes

(1829-1899), French-Swiss author

Luck

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfulty.

Meanness

Whoever is mean in his youth runs a great risk of becoming a scoundrel in riper years; meanness leads to villainy with fatal attraction.

Temper

Men who have had a great deal of experience learn not to lose their tempers.