I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary. – Mark Twain
If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people. – Mark Twain
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. – Mark Twain
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. – Mark Twain
Men are better when riding, more just and more understanding, and more alert and more at ease and more under-taking, and better knowing of all countries and all passages; in short and long all good customs and manners cometh thereof, and the health of man and of his soul. – Attributed to Edward Plantagenet