Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The supremest thing is the need of the body, not of the mind and spirit.
Mark TwainMan will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
Mark TwainIt ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
Mark TwainIf I were going to construct a God I would furnish him with some ways and qualities and characteristics which the Present One lacks... He would spend some of His eternities in trying to forgive Himself for making man unhappy when He could have made him happy with the same effort and He would spend the rest of them in studying astronomy.
Mark Twain