"It takes your enemy and your friend,..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.”

“Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.”

“Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.”

“I want her to be smart and kind... and I want you to fall in love with her, because you shouldn't spend the rest of your life alone.”

“I have never loved a man as much as I have loved myself”

“It's important to have people in your life who will applaud your ambition.”

“When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.”

“The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by.”

“When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense of gratitude as from a desire to persuade people of our own great worth, that can deserve so much kindness.”