Jameseurus

Following the Equator, chapter X
Original engl.: "The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow."
Following the Equator

Following the Equator, chapter VII
Original engl.: "Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it."
Following the Equator

Following the Equator, chapter XXI
Original engl.: Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
Following the Equator

Brief an Mary Hallock Foote, 2. Dezember 1887, veröffentlicht in "When Huck Finn Went Highbrow" <nowiki>ISBN 1-370-32642-5</nowiki>
Original engl.: "All you need in life is ignorance and confidence, then success is sure."
Briefe

Überliefert durch Rudyard Kipling, From Sea to Sea, Brief 37
Original engl.: "Get your facts first, and then you can distort them."
Andere

'Mark Twain, a Biography volume II Part 2 1886-1900, Ostindische Reise, 5. Februar 1896
Original engl.: "Preserve your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but not live."

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, Kap. 16
Original engl.: "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

The Philosophy of Composition, (1846)
(Original engl.: The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world) - The Philosophy of Composition im engl. Wikisource

Marginalien

Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung, 3. Akt / Lady Hunstanton Original engl.: "To have been well brought up is a great drawback nowadays. It shuts one out from so much."
Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung - A Woman of No Importance

Ernst muß man sein, 2. Akt / Gwendolen
Original engl.: "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."
Bunbury oder Ernst muß man sein - Bunbury or The Importance of Being Earnest