" You may be sure of this, my son: that no decision you may take,
nor any course, will meet with universal favor. Though you turn
to the right or to the left, or go ahead, or turn back, or attempt
to stand still, there will come to you some critic to advise the
contrary. For ten fail where the one succeeds; and some who failed
are jealous, others vain, some full of malice. There are also honest
men who, having failed, would warn you of the reef on which they
wrecked their too unmanageable bark. I tell you, in the end you
must decide all issues for yourself, and there is only one true guide,
which is experience.--From The Book Of The Sayings Of Tsiang Samdup "

― Talbot Mundy , The Devil's Guard