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• Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• The history of the race, and each individual's experience, are thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910) -- Advice to Youth (published 1923)...
• I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle.
  Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't. -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth.
  He could not even lie. -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• Intellectual 'work' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it--they also believed the world was flat.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• I can live for two months on a good compliment. -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)
• Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...