"Human beings are the only creatures who..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“...the administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case, or in cases which fall under his eyes.”

“He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby farm to keep him company until he returned home. "If man could be crossed with the cat," said Twain, "it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat." There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.”

“Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.”

“Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.”

“I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves.”

“I will never apologize for saying that the future of humanity and the future of the world is going to be defined by what we have in common as opposed to those things that separate us and ultimately lead us into conflict.”

“Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest”

“Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.”

“The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.”