Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint.
Mark Twain Quotes
A man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
Blasphemy? No, it is not blasphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if He is as little as that, He is beneath it.
If you beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.
You should never do anything wicked and lay it on your brother, when it is just as convenient to lay it on some other boy.
What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light. Anniversaries are very well up to a certain point, while one’s babies are in the process of growing up: they are joy-flags that make gay the road and prove progress; and one looks down the […]
I have had a great many birthdays in my time. I remember the first one very well, and I always think of it with indignation; everything was so crude, unaesthetic, primeval. Nothing like this at all. No proper appreciative preparation made; nothing really ready. Now, for a person born with high and delicate instincts-why, even […]
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man – the biography of the man himself cannot be written.
