Mark Twain

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one’s self-approval.

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.

When the eye is not set on one leaf and you face the tree with nothing in mind, any number of leaves are visible to the eye.

The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.

Creativity is a consequence of action, not its motivation. Do what needs to be done and then ask whether it was possible.

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

In charity there is no excess.

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

The advantage of doing one’s praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

Think with your whole body.

No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.