Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.
Mark Twain Quotes
If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.
It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
We do no benevolences whose first benefit is not for ourselves.
I was obliged to eat (apples), I was so hungry. It was against my principles, but I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed.
Believe in it? Hell, I’ve seen it done. (on being asked if he believed in infant baptism)
If the man doesn’t believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can’t burn him.
Between believing a thing and thinking you know is only a small step and quickly taken.
So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: “Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor’s religion is.” Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new […]
We despise all reverences and all the objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our own list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.
