God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New - the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.
- Mark Twain

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of our selves, and how little we think of the other person.
- Mark Twain

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain

Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter and not by the trimmings and shadings of their grammar.
- Mark Twain

Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.
- Mark Twain

He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty. (Henry Ward Beecher's Farm)
- Mark Twain

Heaven for climate, hell for society.
- Mark Twain

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
- Mark Twain

Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?
- Mark Twain

Human nature cannot be studied in cities except at a disadvantage - a village is the place. There you can know your man inside and out - in a city you but know his crust; and his crust is usually a lie.
- Mark Twain