Human beings are the only creatures who blush - or who need to.

Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby farm to keep him company until he returned home. "If man could be crossed with the cat," said Twain, "it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat." There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Every year you wait, long ago gets farther away.