"How often we recall with regret that..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.”

“The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you are 'no account,' go away from home, and then you will have to work, whether you want to or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them-if the people you go among suffer by the operation.”

“I was an arden Hayes man, but that was natural, for I was pretty young at the time, I have since convinced myself that the political opinioins of a nation are of next to no value, in any case, but that what little rag of value they posess is to be found among the old, rather than among the young.”

“Things severed shall be united and shall acquire of themselves such virtue that they shall restore to men their lost memory: - That is the papyrus sheets, which are formed out of several strips and preserve the memory of the thoughts and deeds of men.”

“Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.”

“In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.”

“There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords.”

“Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.”

“If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.”