"I do not wish any reward but..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny”

“The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.”

“As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.”

“Do you suppose that I should have lived as long as I have if I had moved in the sphere of public life, and conducting myself in that sphere like an honorable man, had always upheld the cause of right, and conscientiously set this end above all other things? Not by a very long way, gentlemen; neither would any other man.”

“Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.”

“I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice, 2) Detrimental moral influence of the execution procedure on those who, whether directly or indirectly, have to do with the procedure.”

“A man should be what he seems.”

“It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.”

“When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted”