Mark Twain

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

Duties are not performed for duty’s sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

A home without a cat-and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat-may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

Let us try what love will do.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

Let us then try what love can do to mend a broken world.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

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.

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

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

Culture is one thing and varnish is another.