Mark Twain1835–1910The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
- “What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us?” (1897)
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
American Claimant (1892)- Following the Equator (1897), Ch. 27, Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar.
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Mark Twain Project edition, Volume 1 (2010), p. 210A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
And I by Opie ReadThe man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way.
One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894), Ch. 7.Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
To the Young People’s Society, Greenpoint Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn (16 February 1901)- Mark Twain’s Autobiography (1924), Vol. II, p. 98
- Mark Twain’s Notebook (1935), p. 346
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
