"Let us make a special effort to..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.”

“I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I smoke with all my might, and allow no intervals.”

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”

“Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?”

“You can get around to meaningful conversations more quickly in the dark than with the sun tickling your face.”

“I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy. If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.”

“Little minds think and talk about people.Average minds think and talk about things and actions.Great minds think and talk about ideas.”

“The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.”

“The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.”