I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.