The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.
Mark TwainIt has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.
Mark TwainA marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it; it gives to two questioning natures a reason for living, and something to live for; it 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 TwainI simply canยดt resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.
Mark Twain