Mark Twain1835–1910- Following the Equator (1897), Ch. 2, Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar.
- A Tramp Abroad (1880)
- “Rev. Henry Ward Beecher’s Farm” (1869), anthologized in Mark Twain’s Sketches (1872)
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
Letter to an Unidentified Person (1908)- Concerning the Jews (Harper’s Magazine, Sept. 1899)
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889), Ch. 22
- “Taming the Bicycle” (1917)
- Following the Equator (1897), Ch. 38, Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar.
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889), Ch. 22One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.
New England Weather, speech to the New England Society (December 22, 1876)I haven’t a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.
“Answers to Correspondents”, The Californian, 17 June 1865. Anthologized in The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (1867)Only one thing is impossible for God: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
Mark Twain’s Notebook (1935), p. 381Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
“A Mysterious Visit”, Buffalo Express, 19 March 1870. Anthologized in Mark Twain’s Sketches, New and Old (1875)H’aint we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain’t that a big enough majority in any town?
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), Ch. 26In contextThey spell it “Vinci” and pronounce it “Vinchy”. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
The Innocents Abroad (1869), Ch. 19
