1093 – “Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one who inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. It is a trait not known to the higher animals.”

-Mark Twain

642 – “To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man’s character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours. Judged by the standards of one century, the noblest characters of an earlier on lose much of their lustre; judged by the standards of today, there is probably no illustrious man of four or five centuries ago whose character could meet the test at all points.”

–Mark Twain

635 – “You cannot depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus.”

–Hank Morgan in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

446 – “But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian’s daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?”

–Mark Twain

198 – “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

–Mark Twain [Attributed]

57 – “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience; this is the ideal life.”

– Mark Twain

22 – “It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man’s character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.”

– Mark Twain