You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things. – Israel Zangwill, The Principle of Nationalities, 1917

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. – Henry David Thoreau

The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. – Joaquin de Setanti