To be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigator.
If we shadows have offended, think but this; and all is mended that you have but slumbered here while these…
Sail not as if in pleasure boats upon a troubled sea.