"A jackass has that kind of strength,..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”

“Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.”

“Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality”

“It is better to live as a broken piece of jade, than to live as a useless clay.”

“Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves”

“Indeed, the best books have a use, like sticks and stones, which is above or beside their design, not anticipated in the preface,not concluded in the appendix. Even Virgil's poetry serves a very different use to me today from what it did to his contemporaries. It has often an acquired and accidental value merely, proving that man is still man in the world.”

“Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediately include it among their ornaments.”

“True ideas lead us into useful verbal and conceptual quarters as well as directly up to useful sensible termini. They lead to consistency, stability and flowing human intercourse.”

“And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.”