About Mark Twain:
Samuel Langhorne Clemens was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark TwainThe trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
Mark TwainLet us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
Mark Twain