Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
~ Mark Twain

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He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.
~ Mark Twain

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Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
~ Mark Twain

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One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.
~ Mark Twain

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Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our hardness yields, all our irritations and resentments flit away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
~ Mark Twain

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Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke.
~ Mark Twain

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The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
~ Mark Twain

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Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
~ Mark Twain

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