Mark Twain

The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn’t ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

All say, How hard it is that we have to die – a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will.

Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.

Burning logs can carry on quite a conversation! … Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It’s the most loquacious of all. You really can’t get a word in edgeways.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God’s hand, his brain as God’s brain, his purpose as God’s purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he does not.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity. The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Some people are stuck on who I was that who I am never even had a chance.

Tread softly, Breathe peacefully, Laugh hysterically.

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise?

Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.