Mark Twain

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy-that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

Seek not to be Rich, but Happy. The one lies in Bags, the other in Content: which Wealth can never give.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.

New arts destroy the old.

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.

I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can’t get away from them.

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.

In his private heart no man much respects himself.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.