Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away) hundreds and hundreds of religions; today he has hundreds and hundreds of religions, and launches not fewer than three new ones every year. I could enlarge on that number and still be within the facts.

I don't want no better book than what your face is.