The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.
Mark TwainMan will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
Mark TwainA photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.
Mark TwainVery well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At Adam, every time. We can't build a monument to a germ, but we can build one to Adam, who is in the way to turn myth in in fifty years and be entirely forgotten in two hundred. We can build a monument and save his name to the world forever, and we'll do it!
Mark Twain