Quotes from Mark Twain

Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four..

It's easy to make friends, but hard to get rid of them.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.

great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.

I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.

It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech.

I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.

For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.