There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. – Mark Twain
The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. On Lohengrin – Mark Twain
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. – Mark Twain
Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul. – Mark Twain
A great many sick persons are allowed to drift into a critical condition when ill—from which many never rally, because they are not fed—not furnished with such nutritive material as their enfeebled powers can digest. – King Chambers, quoted by John Milner Fothergill in A Manual of Dietetics, 1886