Some people scorn a cat and think it not an essential; but the Clemens tribe are not of these.

Some suggestions for you :

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

It is higher and nobler to be kind.

Every person is a book, each year a chapter.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.

That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.

I would take up wickedness.

Children have but little charity for each other's defects.

The timid man yearns for full value and asks for a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.