When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

All gods are better than their reputation.

It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.

What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that ain't no matter. That book was made by a Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.