'...And yet how much better it was to be as they were, than as most scions of aristocratic lineage, whose present was so often nothing and their past everything. How humiliating to be so pathetically inadequate an outcome of such long and elaborate preparation, - the mouse of a genealogical mountain! Yes, it was immeasurably more satisfactory to one's self-respect to be Something out of Nothing, than Nothing out of Everything. Here so little had made so much; here so much had made - hardly even a lord. It was better for your circumstances to be inadequate for you, than you to be inadequate for your circumstances.'
from Young Lives by Richard Le Gallienne (Chapter XIV)
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