Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever. – 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
It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good — and less trouble! – Mark Twain
Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him. – Giuseppe Mazzini