Mark Twain

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

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

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

I thus free myself from the illness of ego-clinging.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.

Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

The truest end of life is to know that life never ends.

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

A sudden bold and unexpected question does many times surprise a man and lay him open.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

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

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.