It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.
Mark TwainTrial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!
Mark TwainIf I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
Mark TwainTotal abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.
Mark Twain