“In response to his growing infirmities, he retreated deeper into his work. At one point, in the summer of 1907, a newspaper reported that the seventy-seven-year-old entrepreneur had suffered a nervous breakdown. As Flagler told the journalist Edwin Lefèvre in 1909, “I don’t know of anyone who has been successful, but that he has been compelled to pay some price for success. Some get it at the loss of their health, others forego the pleasures of home and spend their years in the forest or mines; some acquire success at the loss of their character, and so it goes. Many prices are paid.”