Composite photo of Clemens at his Stormfield mansion in Redding, CT
courtesy of Dave Thomson

...being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny.
- Mark Twain, a Biography

If all men were rich, all men would be poor.
- Mark Twain's Notebook