All MARK TWAIN Quotes about “Heart”

“When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.”
“When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.”
“It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you wantâ€”oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!”
“[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive "owners" who each in turn, as "patriots" with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of "robbers" who came to steal it and did -- and became swelling-hearted patriots in their turn.”
“Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind, politics and religion. He doesn't want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.”
“The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter.”
“God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.”
“No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.”
“What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.”
“The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms.”
“But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was manâ€™s best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free.”
“What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes "my dear," and "my love" come from the heart; but what sensible bachelor, rejoicing in his freedom and years of discretion, will run the tremendous risk?”
“Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.”
“Out of the depths of my happy heart wells a great tide of love and prayer for this priceless treasure that is confided to my lifelong keeping. You cannot see its waves as they flow toward you, darling, but in these lines you will hear...the distant beating of its surf.”

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