In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we plan for the morrow, we even carry our business cares to bed with us...we burn up our energies with these excitements, and either die early or drop into a lean and mean old age at a time of life which they call a man's prime in Europe...What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges!
Mark TwainThe man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
Mark TwainThe man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.
Mark TwainReally, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.
Mark Twain