"The fact is, the king was a..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.”

“People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.”

“April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.”

“The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.”

“Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.”

“Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles”

“I wish to say seriously to all the daily newspapers, to the Republicans, the Democrat, and Socialist parties, that they cannot, month in month out and year in and year out, make the kind of untruthful, of bitter assault that they have made and not expect that brutal, violent natures, or brutal and violent characters, especially when the brutality is accompanied by a not very strong mind; they cannot expect that such natures will be unaffected by it.”

“Emotions come and go and can't be controlled so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone.”

“Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution.”