Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyerand its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter often called "The Great American Novel"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 November 1835
CountryUnited States of America
fall mean night
For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.
earthquakes views atheism
This is the only sane clerical the earthquake has exposed to view yet.
christian atheism savages
Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.
christian country america
This is a Christian country. Why, so is hell. Inasmuch as Strait is the way and narrow is the gate, and few - few - are they that enter in thereat has had the natural effect of making hell the only really prominent Christian community in any of the worlds; but we don't brag of this and certainly it is not proper to brag and boast that America is a Christian country when we all know that certainly five-sixths of our population could not enter in at the narrow gate.
giving-up taken long
It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.
dog atheism would-be
Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag.
atheism slave reason
Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.
frogs ifs dies
Humor is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies.
boys feelings saws
As a boy, I once saw a cart of melons that sorely tempted me. I sneaked up to the cart and stole a melon. I went into the alley to devour it, but no sooner had I set my teeth into it, than I paused, a strange feeling coming over me. I came to a quick conclusion. Firmly, I walked up to that cart, replaced the melon - and took a ripe one.
lasts moral manners
I was born modest, but it didn't last.
fall stills behinds
To stand still is to fall behind.
thinking opinion should
It were not best that we should all think alike.
intellectual spoons shovels
Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.
sleep people going-to-sleep
Don't go to sleep, so many people die there.