What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.
Mark TwainI admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.
Mark TwainWhat a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.
Mark TwainWhen we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.
Mark Twain