Have the courage of your desire.
Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity.
A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity.
That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.
Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.
Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.