If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

The only people that a bank will loan money to is the very people who don't need it.

I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.

You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that ain't no matter. That book was made by a Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.

My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.