1. One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare.

People tend to think that the rarer things are, the more beautiful they are.

——From "Innocents Abroad"

2. It is more satisfactory to be pretty than right.

Make yourself beautiful, It's more pleasing to people than trying to be right.

——From "Missing Maxims Returned to the Mark Twain Papers"

3. One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a really beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her; and the rule applies to Niagara Falls, to majestic mountains, and to mosques--especially to mosques.

How beautiful a woman is can only be understood after getting along with her deeply; this principle also applies to appreciating Nicaragua The beauty of a waterfall, a majestic mountain or a mosque – especially a mosque.

——From "Innocents Abroad"

4. There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail.

Some women’s faces exude a strange charm that makes acquaintances around them think she is beautiful, but to a complete stranger For many people, they often fail to see what is so beautiful about her.

——From "A Tramp Abroad"