Mark Twain

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.

Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.

To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

It is a profitable Wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and Pains are spared, in not flattering our selves against Probabilities.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

Your mind will enchain you. Your heart will set you free.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.