Mark Twain

Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

To choose time is to save time.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

My love for you was like a poem I wrote; one that I disregarded as average. Torn out, thrown away to the rubbish heap, waiting; wishing to be picked up and appreciated by someone else, for the masterpiece that it is.

Goodness is the only investment which never fails.

Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a want, which is incipient habit?

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.