W. Somerset Maugham Work Quotations

Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it.

It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.