Mark Twain Quotes About Enlightenment

• Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

  Mark Twain

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

• Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The supremest thing is the need of the body, not of the mind and spirit.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Civilization, Mind

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.291, Courier Corporation

• Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass Beads and Theology, and Maxim Guns and Hymn Books, and Trade Gin and Torches of Progress and Enlightenment (patent adjustable ones, good to fire villages with, upon occasion), and balance the books, and arrive at the profit and loss, so that we may intelligently decide whether to continue the business or sellout the property and start a new Civilization Scheme on the proceeds.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Loss, Gun

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Portable Mark Twain”, p.495, Penguin

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