More quotes by Mark Twain

"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."
"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."
"Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else."
"I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."