Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.Mark Twain
In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.Mark Twain
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.Mark Twain
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.Mark Twain
It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.Mark Twain
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.Mark Twain
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.Mark Twain
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.Mark Twain
There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.Mark Twain
We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.Mark Twain
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.Mark Twain
Nothing so needs to be reformed as other people's habits.Mark Twain
It was a smooth, compact organization; its parts lay close together; it answered readily to the helm; there was nothing superfluous about it.Roughing It
It is hard to foresee what a year the horoscope never promises.Roughing It
To find a petrified man, or break a stranger's leg, or cave an imaginary mine, or discover some dead Indians in a Gold Hill tunnel, or massacre a family at Dutch Nick's, were feats and calamities that we never hesitated about devising when the public needed matters of thrilling interest for breakfast.Roughing It
There is no sense of weariness like that which closes a day of eager and unflagging and unsuccessful pursuit.Roughing It