Mark Twain

When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

In Nevada, for a time, the lawyer, the editor, the banker, the chief desperado, the chief gambler, and the saloon-keeper occupied the same level of society, and it was the highest.

It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good – and less trouble!

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

There are some sick people in this world.

Who is wise? He who learns from all men.

This above all: to thine own self be true.

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I’m going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that’s tough. I am going to snow anyway.

Every loss of life is terrible.

All heiresses are beautiful.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Once you discover that you can, then you must.

Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?

We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.