Mark Twain

In his private heart no man much respects himself.

A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.

The person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn’t, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn’t ever going to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn’t likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

Let your family, staff, and friends know that you’re still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Revolutions go not backward.

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

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

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief any more. Thieving is God’s message to him. Let him try and be a good thief.

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.