“ What would the new teacher, representing France, teach us? Railroading? No. France knows nothing valuable about railroading. Steamshipping? No. France has no superiorities over us in that matter. Stea… Mark Twain
“ That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do. Mark Twain
“ Life itself is only a vision, a dream.""Nothing exists; all is a dream. God--man--the world--the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars--a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists sa… Mark Twain
“ And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars--all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation;… Mark Twain
“ There has never been a just [war], never an honorable one--on the part of the instigator of the war. I can see a million years ahead, and this rule will never change in so many as half a dozen instanc… Mark Twain
“ It made me shiver. And I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I couldn't try to quit being the kind of a boy I was and be better. So I kneeled down. But the words wouldn't come. Why wouldn't they… Mark Twain
“ In the afternoon the ship's company assembled aft, on deck, under the awnings; the flute, the asthmatic meodeon, and the consumptive clarinet crippled the Star Spangled Banner, the choir chased it to… Mark Twain
“ I persuaded him to throw the dirk away and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself. Mark Twain
“ The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell… Mark Twain
“ Ah, heavens and earth, friend, if you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor that you could to-day. Mark Twain
“ When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved. Mark Twain
“ That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it. Mark Twain
“ The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it.… Mark Twain
“ Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt. Mark Twain
“ When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionat… Mark Twain
“ In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at is… Mark Twain
“ Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday. Mark Twain
“ A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story.… Mark Twain
