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“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”

Mark Twain book Life on the Mississippi

Source: Life on the Mississippi

“The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.”

“Man - a figment of God's imagination.”

“Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.”

Mark Twain book A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell together, as quickly as possible.”

Mark Twain quote: “The average man don't like trouble and danger.”

“The average man don't like trouble and danger.”

Mark Twain book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.”

“Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.”

“Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.”

“The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.”

“Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.”

“To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.”

Source: Joan of Arc

“You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.”

Mark Twain book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.”

“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.”

“Humor is tragedy plus time.”

“Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.”

Mark Twain book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.”

“How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.”

Source: The Diaries of Adam and Eve

“Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects."”

Mark Twain book A Horse's Tale

Acknowledgements
Twain does not quote Herodotus here, he only sums up what he believes to have been Herodotus' approach to the writing of history. Nevertheless, this apocryphal statement is now often quoted as being the very words of Herodotus.
A Horse's Tale (1907)