More quotes by Mark Twain

"Humor is mankind's greatest blessing."
"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
"I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened."
"In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing."
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."