A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way. – Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. – Mark Twain
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. – Mark Twain
I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary. – Mark Twain
Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets. – Arthur Balfour