Mark Twain

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

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.