“ When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it… Mark Twain
“ Nature has no originality--I mean, no large ability in the matter of inventing new things, new ideas, new stage effects. She has a superb and amazing and infinitely varied equipment of old ones, but s… Mark Twain
“ I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and educatio… Mark Twain
“ Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day. Mark Twain
“ There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that. Mark Twain
“ Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. Mark Twain
“ The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. Mark Twain
“ We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facility. Mark Twain
“ It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember as the number of things I can remember that aren't so. Mark Twain
“ Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have the man looked honest enough. Mark Twain
“ Use what you stand for and what you oppose as a foundation to write great content that resonates with readers and creates a ripple effect. Mark Twain
“ He would be a consul no doubt by and by, at some foreign port, of the language of which he was ignorant; though if ignorance of language were a qualification he might have been a consul at home. Mark Twain
“ The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his berea… Mark Twain