Mark Twain

It isn’t safe to sit in judgment upon another person’s illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It works beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does.

It happened once that a youth and a maiden beheld each other in a public assembly for the first time

Self-trust is the essence of heroism.

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

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

If you shoot at a king you must kill him.

Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.

It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.

Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.