Mark Twain

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe… the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.

Have wholesome, but not costly Food, and be rather cleanly than dainty in ordering it.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future.

I always forgive others. The anger; sadness; frustration; pain, whatever feelings I felt, no matter the hurt; the tears, I always found understanding and reason to forgive them; to not hold onto it; to not resent them. But there is one, who I never seem to be able to give absolution, and that’s myself.

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.