Quotes about Reflection

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

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed, only a kind of low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you, Time takes the confidence out of these incautious opinions. It is more than likely that He thinks about the world, now, pretty much as I think about the Innocents Abroad. The fact is, there is a trifle too much water in both.

Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.

We are so strangely made; the memories that could make us happy pass away; it is the memories that break our hearts that abide.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.

All great men are dead, and I'm not feeling too well myself.

The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

I love to hear myself talk, because I get so much instruction and moral upheaval out of it.