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| MARK TWAIN |
| We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege. We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read. We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it--and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again--and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not. Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? Is it because we are not the person involved? Why shouldn't truth be stronger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus. |
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