If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything. The man who tried his best and failed is superior to the man who never tried. There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
I've put my finger on the whole trouble. There is no failure except in no longer trying. We are all of us failures at least, the best of us are. I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots. Home of all social evils, a charitable institution for indolent women, a prison workshop for the slaving breadwinner, and a hell for children.