(1835-1910) American Writer, Humorist, Satirist, Lecturer [Mark Twain at Amazon]
Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.
When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
Each place has its own advantages – heaven for the climate, and hell for the society.
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.