Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows
Mark Twain... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.
Mark TwainOf the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.
Mark TwainThe true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk.
Mark Twain