Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment; cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. I purchased excellent and beautiful horses, visited all such neighbors as I found congenial spirits, and was as happy as happy could be.
Bio: Bessie Anderson Stanley was an American writer, the author of the poem Success, which is often incorrectly attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson or Robert Louis Stevenson.
