Humpty

“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
― Mark Twain

“Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”
― Mark Twain

“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.”
― Mark Twain

“A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.”
― Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad