A great and priceless thing is a new interest! How it takes possession of a man! how it clings to him, how it rides him!
Mark Twain Quotes
Never run after your own hat- others will be delighted to do it; why spoil their fun?
Sphere of influence. That is a courteous modern phrase which means robbing your neighbor – for your neighbor’s benefit
Each man is afraid of his neighbor’s disapproval – a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death.
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Necessity knows no law.
The more you join in with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you… But it is sorrow and trouble that brings you the nearest.
Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.
Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.
Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand.
