I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.
Mark TwainTo succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.
Mark TwainLet me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.
Mark TwainHow often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.
Mark TwainThere is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercyยดs campaign among the Midianites. The official report deals only in masses, all the virgins, all the men, all the babies. all ยดcreatures that breathe,ยด all houses. all cities. It gives you just one vast picture ...as far as the eye can reach, of charred ruins and storm-swept desolation... Would you expect this same conscienceless God, this moral bankrupt, to become a teacher of morals, of gentleness, of meekness, of righteousness, of purity?
Mark Twain