Mark Twain Quotes
I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.
Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Speeches. Harper & Brothers, 1910.
The President smoked cigars but never in public:
I don’t know if you want to include this but Grant had a cigar clamped in his mouth the entire time.
The first Native American to become a General Officer. Appointed by President Grant in 1869. When Kelly rendered the famous scene, the cigar is in Grant’s mouth. Kelly interviewed every Civil War Officer he sculpted and did so for over 80 Union Generals all of which are still exhibited throughout the country. Most historical artists and sculptors did not go into this historical detail.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".
