Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark TwainIt 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 TwainTwenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather.
Mark Twain