The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.
Mark TwainThe old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it yourself.
Mark TwainI have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
Mark TwainGeorge Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
Mark TwainThe easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life-hence it is a valuable possession to him.
Mark Twain