Mark Twain

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don’t know anything and can’t read.

Fueling your body is a process… The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

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

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.

I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all the management of human affairs.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness – an open and noble temper.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.