A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.
Mark TwainWhen a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.
Mark TwainMen are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.
Mark TwainIt is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden. Meantime, I seem to have been drifting into criticism myself. But that is nothing. At the worst, criticism is nothing more than a crime, and I am not unused to that.
Mark Twain