A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk.
A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
Scatter seeds of kindness.
It isn't how long you stick around but what you put over while you are here.
Mark Twain said (particularly about Pink Marsh): "I have been reading him again, and my admiration overflows all limits. ... How effortless the limning! It is as if the work did itself, without help of the master's hand."
Every Man is the Architect of his own Fortunes, but the Neighbours superintend the Construction.