Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Mark TwainLaws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
Mark TwainWe should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.
Mark TwainProbably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be the mere conversational shooting up of "smartness"--a bright feather, to be blown into space the second after it is launched...Wit seems to be counted a very poor relation to Humour....Humour is never artificial.
Mark Twain