Mark Twain

A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most impeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; a township or two of tender, yellowish fat gracing an out-lying district of this ample county of beefsteak; the long white bone which divides the sirloin from the tenderloin still in its place.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.

Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

None of us should be defined by the worst thing we’ve ever done.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.