All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
- Mark Twain

Always do right! This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.
- Mark Twain

An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite picturesque liar. (My military Campaign)
- Mark Twain

Anti-Semitism . . . is the swollen envy of pygmy minds - meanness, injustice.
- Mark Twain

Armaments were not created chiefly for the protection of the nations but for their enslavement.
- Mark Twain

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
- Mark Twain

Between believing a thing and thinking you know is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written.
- Mark Twain