Mark Twain

There isn’t a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

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

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

When many demons are struggling inside you, the one that you feed is the one that will become the strongest. You alone are responsible for what you feed.

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

As you get older, you realize that no one has all the answers. It turns out that life is an exercise in living with the certainty of uncertainty. – Jason Kilar

For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure –tangible material prosperity in this world -is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.

Logic is like the sword

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature – if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you – know that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus may you feel your pulse.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.