As a rule, one can't get it without a sacrifice." "That's the principle you acted on ?" Grenfell spread out his hands.
"I guess it is," he said.

"In my case the thing I wanted wasn't good for me.

I had to choose between my profession and whisky, and I did.
Anyway, I've had the whisky." Weston sat thoughtfully silent a minute or two.

It seemed to him that while the result of the course his comrade advocated might well prove to be disastrous, as it had certainly done in his particular case, there was a warranty for it.

If it were true that practically nothing could be obtained without cost, it was clear that the excess of prudence which shrank from incurring the latter could lead only to aridity of life.