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
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. – Mark Twain
Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world — and never will. – Mark Twain
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething. – 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