It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.
Mark TwainThe common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.
Mark TwainThere are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
Mark TwainIndependence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.
Mark Twain