"It was enough to make a body..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.”

“Men are easily dealt with--but when you get the women started, you are in for it, you know.”

“That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.”

“Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the illusion that injustice can be perpetuated by the capacity to kill, or that disputes are necessarily best resolved by resort to violent means.”

“Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.”

“Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness.”

“Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.”

“I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.”

“Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself. It was consequently necessary to name some other period for the commencement of actual felicity; to have some other point on which her wishes and hopes might be fixed, and by again enjoying the pleasure of anticipation, console herself for the present, and prepare for another disappointment.”