Mark Twain Quotes
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Context
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Citations
Mark Twain, Writer, Founder, Anti-Imperialist League, Note to the Young People’s Society, 1901
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".