Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever. Mark Twain Read Quote
Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all. Mark Twain Read Quote
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie. Mark Twain Read Quote
It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it. Mark Twain Read Quote
In ‘Huckleberry Finn,’ I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was. He was ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed; but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had. Mark Twain Read Quote