I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
They can conquer who believe they can.
History is more or less bunk.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.