He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it.

And remember that the danger which is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

O grant me a house by the beach of a bay, Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play With the sea-weed in summer, ye bountiful powers! And I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, For a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.