Mark Twain

Drop this mean and sordid and selfish devotion to the saving of your shabby little souls, and hunt up something to do that’s got some dignity to it! Risk your souls! Risk them in good causes; then if you lose them, why should you care? Reform!

Mark Twain

Duties are not performed for duty’s sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty – the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.

Mark Twain

Dying man couldn’t make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!

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

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn’t. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

Mark Twain

Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.

Mark Twain

Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.

Mark Twain

Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.

Mark Twain

Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man’s enjoyment of his cigar.

Mark Twain

Education is what remains when what is learned has been taken away.

Mark Twain