Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven Quotes

“It’s the same here as it is on earth—you’ve got to earn a thing, square and honest, before you enjoy it.  You can’t enjoy first and earn afterwards.  But there’s this difference, here: you can choose your own occupation, and all the powers of heaven will be put forth to help you make a success of it, if you do your level best.  The shoe-maker on earth that had the soul of a poet in him won’t have to make shoes here.”
― Mark Twain, Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven

“Oh, hold on; there’s plenty of pain here—but it don’t kill.  There’s plenty of suffering here, but it don’t last.  You see, happiness ain’t a thing in itself—it’s only a contrast with something that ain’t pleasant.  That’s all it is.  There ain’t a thing you can mention that is happiness in its own self—it’s only so by contrast with the other thing.  And”
― Mark Twain, Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven

“I begin to see that a man’s got to be in his own Heaven to be happy.” “Perfectly correct,” says he.  “Did you imagine the same heaven would suit all sorts of men?”
― Mark Twain, Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven