It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it. – Mark Twain
Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all. – Mark Twain
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. – Mark Twain
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. – Mark Twain
Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily distinguish the two: the former are always full; the latter only now and then, when their suns are shining full upon them. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers