Mark Twain

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Never learn to do anything. If you don’t learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

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

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.

Your mind makes a cruel master, but a generous servant.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct – nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of.

It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.

The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.