It's so hard to find men of a so high type of morals that they'll stay bought.
- Mark Twain

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain

Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Mark Twain

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
- Mark Twain

Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight - this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one - this is business.
- Mark Twain

Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
- Mark Twain

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
- Mark Twain

Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
- Mark Twain

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
- Mark Twain

Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel . . . And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for "the universal brotherhood of man" -with his mouth.
- Mark Twain