Let us endeavour to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Wagner's music is better than it sounds. If there are no cigars in Heaven, I shall not go. I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.