A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. – Henry David Thoreau
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Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it — torn up to irrecoverable tatters. – Samuel Butler
Use your energy for good and it will be replenished with more good energy, use you energy for bad and your energy will be drained. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife
It is bad policy to regulate everything… where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power. – Friedrich List
Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men. – Voltaire
