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
Man – a creature made at the end of the weeks work when God was tired. – Mark Twain
The Christians Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes. – Mark Twain
Substitute damn every time youre inclined to write very your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. – 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