Mark Twain

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred read more

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised read more

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a read more

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

The man that sets out to carry a cat by it's tail learns something that will always be useful and read more

The man that sets out to carry a cat by it's tail learns something that will always be useful and which will never grow dim or doubtful.