"I'm glad I did it, partly because..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“It's so damned humiliating.”

“Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.”

“I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.”

“Some teachers teach for others to learn. That's not me. Some teachers teach for others to accomplish. That is me.”

“The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.”

“As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.”

“Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly.”

“Education gives you neither experience nor wisdom.”

“You have no idea what it is to have anybody wonderful fond of you, unless you have been got down and rolled upon by the lonely feelings that I have mentioned as having once got the better of me.”