 Illustration from The New York Times December 25, 1904 |
...honor is a harder master than the law. - Mark Twain, a Biography Public shows of honor are pleasant, but private ones are pleasanter, because they are above suspicion. - Letter to Will Bowen, 12/19/1888 On the whole, it is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. - Mark Twain's Notebook, 1902-1903 Honor knows no statute of limitations. - Mark Twain's Autobiography ...honor is a harder master than the law. It cannot compromise for less than 100 cents on the dollar and its debts never outlaw. - Mark Twain, a Biography |
It pleased me beyond measure when Yale made me a Master of Arts, because I
didn't know anything about art...I rejoiced again when Missouri University made
me a Doctor of Laws, because it was all clear profit, I not knowing anything
about laws except how to evade them...And now at Oxford I am to be made a Doctor
of Letters--all clear profit, because what I don't know about letters would
make me a multi-millionaire if I could turn it into cash.
- Mark Twain's Autobiography
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