Mark Twain

I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog.

He was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty.

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience — 4000 critics.

Ah, it was worth ten years of a man’s life to be dead then! Everything was pleasant. I was in a good neighbourhood, for all the dead people that lived near me belonged to the best families in the city.

I have seen Chinamen abused and maltreated in all the mean, cowardly ways possible to the invention of a degraded nature, but I never saw a policeman interfere in the matter and I never saw a Chinaman righted in a court of justice for wrongs thus done him.

I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county.

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.