The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.
Mark TwainI have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.
Mark TwainHardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.
Mark TwainThe business aspects of the Fourth of July is not perfect as it stands. See what it costs us every year with loss of life, the crippling of thousands with its fireworks, and the burning down of property. It is not only sacred to patriotism and universal freedom, but to the surgeon, the undertaker, the insurance offices - and they are working it for all it is worth.
Mark Twain