صاحب الفكرة الجديدة مجرم حتى تكتب لفكرته النجاح. - Mark Twain

He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.

Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.