Mark Twain

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.

We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

Nature hates calculators.

Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny.

If you can’t fly, then run, if you can’t walk run, then walk, if you can’t walk, then crawl, but by all means keep moving.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

Kings are not born they are made by universal hallucination.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power is within and available to you now.