I find that, as a rule, when a thing is a wonder to us it is not because of what we see in it, but because of what others have seen in it. We get almost all our wonders at second hand.

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A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

Man will do MANY things to get himself loved. Man will do ALL things to get himself envied.

When a man goes back to look at the house of his childhood, it has always shrunk: There is no instance of such a house being as big as the picture in memory and imagination call for.

I reckon the widow or the parson or somebody prayed that this bread would find me, and here it have gone and done it. So there ain't no doubt but there is something in that thing. That is, there's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it--when unpopular.

More men go to church than want to.

A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

You don't know about me without you have read a book called "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no matter.

After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers; and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by-and-by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him; because I don't take no stock in dead people.