Works
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- The Prince and the Pauper
- The Innocents Abroad
- Life on the Mississippi
- Pudd'nhead Wilson
- The Diary of Adam and Eve
- The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain
- Jumping Frog
Top 10 Famous Quotes
- Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.
- Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
- The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as a rule, was in considerable doubt as to who his father was.
- Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn’t any. But this wrongs the jackass.
- There has been only one Christian. They caught him and crucified him–early.
- There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man’s notion that he less savage than the other savages.
- Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.
- The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass.
- The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.
- Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.