More from Samuel Langhorne Clemens

  1. Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
  2. The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with m…
  3. It is wonderful, the power of a faith like that, that can make multitudes upon multitudes of the old and weak and the young and frail enter…
  4. I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
  5. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.
  6. Never let your schooling interfere with your education.
  7. Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are e…
  8. If you would have your fiction live forever, you must neither overtly preach nor overtly teach; but you must covertly preach and covertly t…

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