“I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass.” GivingSoulMouthsSouthGlassesHypocrisyPocketsSouth AfricaSoapPiratePiousMeannessTowelsChristendom Book:Dear Mark Twain: Letters from His Readers Source: Dear Mark Twain: Letters from His Readers
“Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?” IfsSoulHopeHeavenWealthRichesPockets Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought