Mark Twain

Two Mark Twain quotes I personally find incredibly moving;

"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?"



The Librarian

Nice quotes. I like this one the most -

"During many ages there were witches. The Bible said so. the Bible commanded that they should not be allowed to live. Therefore the Church, after eight hundred years, gathered up its halters, thumb-screws, and firebrands, and set about its holy work in earnest. She worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood.
Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One does not know whether to laugh or to cry....." -Mark Twain

Here's one I love.

“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”

― Mark Twain

[pdizzle45]

Not huge on Mark Twain quotes, but Huck Finn is an excellent read. One of my favorites.

[pdizzle45]

"Roughing It" also another solid Twain read

I just found out it might not be Mark Twain, but I do love this quote:

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."