Mark Twain — Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little c…

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.