| Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment. | Mark Twain |
| Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. | Mark Twain |
| Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. | Mark Twain |
| Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. | Mark Twain |
| Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. | Mark Twain |
| Hunger is the handmaid of genius. | Mark Twain |
| I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way. | Mark Twain |
| I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. | Mark Twain |
| I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed. | Mark Twain |
| It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right. | Mark Twain |
| It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet. | Mark Twain |
| It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you. | Mark Twain |
| It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races. | Mark Twain |
| Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read. | Mark Twain |
| Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head. | Mark Twain |
| Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime. | Mark Twain |
| Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size. | Mark Twain |
| Often the less there is to justify a traditional custom the harder it is to get rid of it. | Mark Twain |
| The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying. | Mark Twain |
| The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. | Mark Twain |
| The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little. | Mark Twain |
| There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. | Mark Twain |
| There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure. | Mark Twain |
| There is no security in life, only opportunity. | Mark Twain |