It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone.
Mark TwainGratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.
Mark TwainLife would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark TwainMen write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible
Mark Twain