A marriage. . .will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.
Mark TwainTo trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.
Mark TwainReputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.
Mark TwainI was an arden Hayes man, but that was natural, for I was pretty young at the time, I have since convinced myself that the political opinioins of a nation are of next to no value, in any case, but that what little rag of value they posess is to be found among the old, rather than among the young.
Mark Twain