"I think a compliment ought always to..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.”

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

“Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag.”

“I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.”

“There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.”

“We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.”

“Do not spit gum in the drinking fountains.”

“Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. That is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses.”

“The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.”