"We are discreet sheep; we wait to..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.”

“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

“Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.”

“Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.”

“Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.”

“Just remember that you don't have to be what they want you to be.”

“In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.”

“Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.”

“There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.”