I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.
Mark TwainTo arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
Mark TwainReligion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.
Mark TwainThis is a Christian country. Why, so is hell. Inasmuch as Strait is the way and narrow is the gate, and few - few - are they that enter in thereat has had the natural effect of making hell the only really prominent Christian community in any of the worlds; but we don't brag of this and certainly it is not proper to brag and boast that America is a Christian country when we all know that certainly five-sixths of our population could not enter in at the narrow gate.
Mark Twain