“There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail”
“Failing is not a disgrace unless you make it the last chapter of your book.”
“To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace”
“Favour and disgrace would seem equally to be feared; honour and great calamity, to be regarded as personal conditions (of the same kind).”
“...if it had to be shame, then let it be shame; if it had to be disgrace, then let it be disgrace; if it had to be degradation, then let it be degradation--the worse the better!”
“The getting that (favour) leads to the apprehension (of losing it), and the losing it leads to the fear of (still greater calamity):—this is what is meant by saying that favour and disgrace would seem equally to be feared.”