Mark Twain

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

There is a great deal of human nature in people.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it cannot be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Language is the archives of history.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

Seek not to be Rich, but Happy. The one lies in Bags, the other in Content: which Wealth can never give.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

They that deny a God destroy man’s nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

I always like people who have developed long and hard, particularly through introspection and a lot of dedication. I think that what they arrive at is, usually, deeper and more beautiful than the person who seems to have that ability and fluidity from the beginning.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain’t so.

Syllables govern the world.

It’s a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.