We can't always have the beautiful aspect of things. Let us make the most of our sights that are beautiful and let the others go
Mark TwainThe church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example
Mark TwainIn Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?
Mark TwainThe air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.
Mark TwainBarring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
Mark TwainWe had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches of dark blue, others of purple, others of polished bronze; the billowy mountains showed all sorts of dainty browns and greens, blues and purples and blacks, and the rounded velvety backs of certain of them made one want to stroke them, as one would the sleek back of a cat.
Mark Twain