Quotes from Mark Twain

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence -- and then success is sure.

Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket, -- which is but a manner of saying, Scatter your money and your attention, but the wise man saith, Put all your eggs in the one basket and -- watch that basket.

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

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 excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.

Everything has its limit--iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds upon the heel that crushes it.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

He would come in and say he changed his mind -- which was a gilded figure of speech, because he didn't have any.

Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

I am an old man and have a great many troubles, But most of them never happened.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.