If the current is right, one can drift to success.
If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.
Glamour looks eloquent but seldom talks.
Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects.
Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful.
Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father.