Mark Twain

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse. He will go to any length for it-risk fortune, character, reputation, life itself.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman’s life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul’s highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. ‘Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

A man’s true delight is to do the things he was made for.

It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.

Our faith comes in moments… yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.

You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.