The proper proportions of a maxim: a minimum of sound to a maximum of sense. – Mark Twain
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. – Mark Twain

The proper proportions of a maxim: a minimum of sound to a maximum of sense. – Mark Twain
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. – Mark Twain
My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart — a heart so large that everybody’s joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. – Mark Twain
Reframing an extract as a quotation constitutes a kind of coauthorship. With no change in wording, the cited passage becomes different. I imagine that the thrill of making an anthology includes the opportunity to become such a coauthor. – Gary Saul Morson, The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture, 2011