Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief. – Mark Twain
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging? – Mark Twain
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. – Mark Twain
If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people. – Mark Twain
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. – Henry David Thoreau