More from Mark Twain
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Quoting or paraphrasing a Professor Winchester in “Disappearance of Literature”, speech at the Nineteenth Century Club, New York, 20 November 1900, in Mark Twain’s Speeches (1910), ed. William Dean Howells, p. 194Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
More Maxims of Mark (1927) edited by Merle Johnson
More about courage
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
?UnattributedOften credited to Winston Churchill
