The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.
Mark TwainProhibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.
Mark TwainWe 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 TwainIf to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people
Mark TwainIn this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the grand problem of aerial navigation-and along with that belief is the hope that that genius will reveal his miracle before they die, and likewise a dread that he will poke off somewhere and die himself before he finds out that he has such a wonder lying dormant in his brain. We all know the air can be navigated-therefore, hurry up your sails and bladders-satisfy us-let us have peace.
Mark Twain