Mark Twain

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know, I’ve done it a thousand times.

We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

I found you essay to be good and original. However, the part that was original was not good and the part that was good was not original.

Be a lamp, a lifeboat, a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

With all the doubt, with every worry, with all the negativity that I mistook for honesty, it kept me blinded. Lying for so long, I fooled myself in believing it to be my reality. And living in that world, it was my reality. Like when the lights come on, or when the curtains are drawn back, the shock of the clarity, meant I had to adjust to the new world I was witnessing. An honest; good with the bad, world, that I can thrive and grow in.

She has lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.