I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The business aspects of the Fourth of July is not perfect as it stands. See what it costs us every year with… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
