Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
Mark TwainI have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.
Mark TwainThe easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
Mark TwainScientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.
Mark TwainI believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. I believe that whenever a human being, of even the highest intelligence and culture, delivers an opinion upon a matter apart from his particular and especial line of interest, training and experience, it will always be an opinion of so foolish and so valueless a sort that it can be depended upon to suggest to our Heavenly Father that the human being is another disappointment and that he is no considerable improvement upon the monkey.
Mark Twain