There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail
Mark Twain
All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime
Mark Twain
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Mark Twain
When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.
Mark Twain
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death
Mark Twain
Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.
Mark Twain
It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.
Mark Twain
Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book.
Mark Twain
A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it
Mark Twain
The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze
Mark Twain
