Mark Twain

I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of read more

I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.

It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right

It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right

I have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

I have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.