It did not occur to me that there would be many difficulties to impede my ambition. . . .

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

On the summit see, The seals of office glitter in his eyes; He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! At his heels, Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends, And with a dexterous jerk soon twists him down, And wins them, but to lose them in his turn.

By low ambition and the thirst of praise.

depression, which can be as serious a medical affair as diabetes or cancer.

Loss in all of its manifestations is the touchstone of depression—in the progress of the disease and, most likely, in its origin.