Mark Twain

Children have but little charity for one another’s defects.

Mark Twain

Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

Mark Twain

Circumstance – which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all – and will be.

Mark Twain

Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.

Mark Twain

Citizenship is what makes a republic – monarchies can get along without it.

Mark Twain

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.

Mark Twain

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

Mark Twain

Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.

Mark Twain

Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we’d all have frozen to death!

Mark Twain

College is a place where a professor’s lecture notes go straight to the students’ lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

Mark Twain