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
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. – Mark Twain
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow there is no humor in Heaven. – Mark Twain
A mans character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation. – 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