"There is no salvation for us but..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.”

“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”

“When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.”

“Through the din and desultoriness of noon, even in the most Oriental city, is seen the fresh and primitive and savage nature, in which Scythians and Ethiopians and Indians dwell. What is echo, what are light and shade, day and night, ocean and stars, earthquake and eclipse, there? The works of man are everywhere swallowed up in the immensity of nature. The AEgean Sea is but Lake Huron still to the Indian.”

“Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.”

“...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.”

“Man must conquer nature.”

“There is no beginning too small.”

“I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.”