I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up...These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with.
Mark TwainLook at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.
Mark TwainThere is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par.
Mark TwainThe 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 indelicate storiesโ and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures.
Mark Twain