Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The worl... - Mark Twain

"Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects."

"I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!"

"I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

"I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."