But probability, inherent or extraneous, is as soon to be looked in Mark Twain's stories as in the Arabian Nights . Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. It is because we are not the person involved. When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know to have gone to a better world I am moved to lead a different life.
Nothing needs so reforming as other people's habits.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji. Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault after all and therefore ought to be received with great caution.