Mark Twain

From his cradle to the grave a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object save one-to secure peace of mind spiritual comfort for himself.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

The preacher who casts a vote for conscience' sake, runs the risk of starving.

I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.'].

This poor little one-horse town.

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

It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.

Go to bed early get up early-this is wise.