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When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constant

When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889

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