More quotes by Mark Twain

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know."
"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."
"We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter."
"Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other."
"Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."[Mark Twain, a Biography]"