There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.
Mark TwainTwenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather.
Mark TwainThe more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.
Mark TwainA historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.
Mark TwainI never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. But I grieve not. I like no half-way things. I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity.
Mark Twain