Mark Twain

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”

“There isn't time—so brief is life—for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving—and but an instant, so to speak, for that.”

“All ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources.”

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”

“There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.”

“For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.”

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

“I want a good wife. I want a couple of them if they're particularly good.”

“Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.”

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”

“Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.”

“The most important days are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

“A man's private thought can never be a lie; what he thinks, is to him the truth, always.”

“A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”

“A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.”

“Virtue has never been as respectable as money.”

“I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.”