Mark Twain

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.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

Never put off until tomorrow, what you can put off until the day after tomorrow.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then

We have more than we use.

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.