I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.
Mark TwainIt takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
Mark TwainPraise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.
Mark TwainIn my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in my hearing; the local papers said nothing against it; the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and that the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind.
Mark Twain