We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. – Mark Twain
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it aint so. – Mark Twain
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. – Mark Twain
The proper proportions of a maxim: a minimum of sound to a maximum of sense. – Mark Twain
If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place on my knee and follow the comings and goings of my pen -sometimes effacing, with an unintentional stroke of her paw, lines of whose tenor she disapproved. – Pierre Loti