I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.