Mark Twain

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

Mark Twain

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

Mark Twain

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

Mark Twain

There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.

Mark Twain

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Mark Twain

They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

Mark Twain

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

Mark Twain

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government.

Mark Twain

To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Mark Twain