Mark Twain on W

"It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to "call," and you roll in the chips."

"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul."

"His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere.

"He was good-natured, obliging and immensely ignorant, and was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie."

"He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages."

"Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing."

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