Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.
- Mark Twain

But South Australia deserves much, for apparently she is a hospitable home for every alien who chooses to come; and for his religion too. Her varieties of religion indicate the presence within her borders of samples of people from pretty near every part of the globe you can think of . . . You see how healthy the religious atmosphere is. Anything can live in it. Agnostics, Atheists, Freethinkers, Infidels, Mormons, Pagans, Indefinites: they are all there. And all the big sects of the world can do more than merely live in it: they can spread, flourish, prosper.
- Mark Twain

But we are fearfully and wonderfully made, and we glorious Americans will occasionally astonish the God that created us when we get a fair start.
- Mark Twain

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity - another man's I mean.
- Mark Twain

Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.
- Mark Twain

Chastity - you can carry it too far.
- Mark Twain

Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence--stuffed and in a museum.
- Mark Twain

Citizenship is what makes a republic; monarchies can get along without it.
- Mark Twain

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
- Mark Twain

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain