| Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear. | Mark Twain |
| Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. | Mark Twain |
| It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible. | Mark Twain |
| It is often the case that the man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one. | Mark Twain |
| 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 Twain |
| Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. | Mark Twain |
| Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied. | Mark Twain |
| Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it. | Mark Twain |
| Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living. | Mark Twain |