Let what comes come. Let what goes go. Find out what remains.
"The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter."
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may make them capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.