Mark Twain

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it’s what he descends to that shames the human race.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only one thing, share the fear of belonging to another, or to others, or to God; love or money, tender equated in advertising and the world, where only money is currency, and under dead trees and brittle ornaments prehensile hands exchange forgeries of what the heart dare not surrender.

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.

A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.

Whether he knew it or not, the life he lived was his penance. Punishing himself, for what he believes are his sins. Consciously or subconsciously, he creates the world he lives in. Never believing that he is deserving happiness, deserving joy. His self-destructive nature, in his eyes, and his eyes only, is justified. Everyone is deserving absolution, but he needs to understand, that he is the only one able to forgive himself.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

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.

Any experience of reality is indescribable!

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Real love begins when nothing is expected in return.

There is only one good – knowledge; and only one evil – ignorance.