Mark Twain

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

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

All say, How hard it is that we have to die – a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

There is a great deal of human nature in people.

For every why he had a wherefore.

Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men’s heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.

Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who think diffenrently…

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality… is the highest act of wisdom.

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.

If no mistake have you made, yet losing you are … a different game you should play.

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.