What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
Mark TwainWhen your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.
Mark TwainIt was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely better for us-if the serpent had been forbidden
Mark TwainA home without a cat โ and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat โ may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?
Mark TwainThe gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.
Mark Twain