Mark Twain

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life.

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that you don’t know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

In all debates let truth be thy aim; not victory or an unjust interest; and endeavor to gain rather than to expose thy antagonist.

All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Reading Proust isn’t just reading a book, it’s an experience and you can’t reject an experience.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.

Friendship . . . is an Union of Spirits, a Marriage of Hearts, and the Bond thereof Vertue.

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