Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
Mark TwainThe easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life-hence it is a valuable possession to him.
Mark TwainThe primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?
Mark TwainAfter my marriage she edited everything I wrote. And what is more, she not only edited my works, she edited me.
Mark TwainI can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.
Mark TwainThis is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the sun sink down, drowned in his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature, and make a sympathetic one drunk with ecstasy.
Mark Twain