John Buchan (Lord Tweedsmuir), one of the most outstanding men Scotland has produced in our times and well known for his romances of adventure, pointed out in one of them that "in this life you could often get success, if you did not want victory"; but, he added elsewhere in the story, "in this world I do not think you can get both at once—you must make your choice."
Experience has convinced me that this pronouncement by a wise man of affairs who had vast experience is profoundly true. Success—of a sort at least—is open to most of us, if we are willing to pay the price. But we ought to realize at the start that the price is a very high one, no less than the abandonment of all prospect of victory.
R. B. Withers
