"Everything human is pathetic..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.”

“The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy.”

“Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get achance, because if you don't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain't ever forgot. I never see papa when he didn't want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway.”

“Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.”

“Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.”

“It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!”

“Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.”

“It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.”

“Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.”