Mark Twain

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.

Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Men are respectable only as they respect.