I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to such a degree that the average man has turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized, where it should be his humiliation.
Mark TwainLiterature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.
Mark TwainThe nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.
Mark Twain