It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.
Mark TwainI have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.
Mark TwainMy faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.
Mark TwainGod made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them in one day when they were again needed. Therefore it was an odd idea to save specimens of them for eleven months in the ark, whilst aware that eight persons could not feed or water them by any human possibility. If they were to be preserved by miracle, the ark was not necessary - to let them swim would have answered the purpose and been more indubitably miraculous.
Mark Twain