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• Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult. -- Samuel Johnso
• Honesty is the best policy--when there is money in it. -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)
• Temperance. . .I call it the exercise of our faculties and organs in such a manner as to combine the maximum of pleasure with the minimum of pain.
• Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today. -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)
• There is a great deal of human nature in people. -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)
• It is not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that make horseraces.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), from Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar(1894)...
• Frugality may be termed the daughter of prudence, the sister of temperance, and the parent of liberty.
  He that is extravagant will quickly become poor, and poverty will enforce dependence and invite corruption....
• A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• An ethical man is a Christian holding four aces. -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)