Mark Twain Quotes
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. American Publishing Company, 1897, p. 69.
He had a relatively unique distinction for a white man who interacted with Indians. The Delaware found his honesty on all subjects so unusual, that they had a special ceremony to name him. As a result, he was able to keep the Delaware from becoming allies of the British in the American Revolution.
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".