He learns how to sail. The worst thing to do would be to get involved with a person or subject or school that you don't find congenial. Most of the Hitler and Stalin scholars I know are depressed people. I suppose that kind of thing has to be done, but I don't want to do it. I want to have fun.
Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy.
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort which it brings. There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral. When all think alike, no one is thinking very much. The cheap, no matter how charming, how immediate, does not wear so well. It has a way of telling its story the first time through.