No person utterly miserable ever did a great work. If you want to know what you think, make a speech. If you want to know what you think, make a speech. If you would have a thing well done, order the waiter to bring it rare - and give no tips. If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
Life is a sequence and the man who does great work has long been in training for it.
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. It isn't time that makes you grow old - it's having the thing called life turn turtle at an inopportune time. The world reserves its big prizes but for one thing, and that is Initiative. Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. Next to doing the thing without being told, is to do it when you are told once.