If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is. For he is as I was: he thinks he knows.
Mark Twain Quotes
On Hawaii: The loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any ocean.
Palestine is desolate and unlovely. Over it broods the spell of a curse that has withered its fields and fettered its energies.
India has 2,000,000 gods, and worships them all. In religion other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
In Boston they ask, “How much does he know?” In New York, “How much is he worth?” In Philadelphia, “Who were his parents?”
Approaching Adelaide we dismounted from the train, as the French say, and were driven in an open carriage over the hills and along their slopes to the city. It was an excursion of an hour or two, and the charm of it could not be overstated, I think. The road wound around the gaps and […]
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.
No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody – hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it! It transforms into desperadoes the meekest of men; depicts sinless innocence upon the pictured faces of ruffians; gives the wise man the stupid leer of a fool, and a fool an expression of more […]
I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
