"Let us guess that whenever we read..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.”

“Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.”

“Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.”

“The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.”

“The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.”

“Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.”

“I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. Almost no new classics resemble other previous classics. At first people see only the awkwardness. Then they are not so perceptible. When they show so very awkwardly people think these awkwardnesses are the style and many copy them. This is regrettable.”

“If y'all fresh to death, then I'm deceased.”

“Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.”