It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.