I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of... - Mark Twain

"When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain."

"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also."

"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain."

"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them."

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."