Quotes from Mark Twain

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

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.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.

Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

You can tell German wine from vinegar ... by the label.

Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.

From his cradle to the grave, a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object save one-to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for himself.