More from Samuel Langhorne Clemens

  1. God's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.
  2. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
  3. France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
  4. Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
  5. The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.
  6. Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
  7. Of all the creatures that were made he [man] is the most detestable. Of the entire brood he is the only one - the solitary one - that posse…
  8. Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

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