Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.
This is the maxim that opens chapter 15, “The Robber Robbed”. Like the rest of the calendar, it is written as the opinion of the town’s eccentric lawyer rather than as Twain’s own.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
The rank is but the guinea’s stamp, / The Man’s the gowd for a’ that.