Mark Twain

We ought never to do wrong when people are looking.

We ought never to do wrong when people are looking.

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is read more

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it read more

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.

We do no benevolences whose first benefit is not for ourselves

We do no benevolences whose first benefit is not for ourselves