Mark Twain

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn’t ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.

Work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like nobody is watching.

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Men are what their mothers made them.

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.

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

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

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

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.

The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing his direction, and wastes the hour of daylight in looking for smoother ground and shorter passages.