"Every year you wait, long ago gets..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.”

“There is no security in life, only opportunity.”

“The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it.”

“Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.”

“The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.”

“Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time' is to say 'I don't want to.'”

“The memory of past troubles is pleasant.[Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]”

“I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning, How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me, And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart, And reach'd till you felt my beard, and reach'd till you held my feet.”

“Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour would exclude the last. Yet we can count all our good books; nay, I remember any beautiful verse for twenty years.”