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
If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people. – Mark Twain
When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one. – Mark Twain
We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years. – Mark Twain