Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.