MARK TWAIN
Libby, Paris, "A ship visible on the horizon, coming down
under a cloud of canvas.^3'
Friday, Feb. 2, 1894. Sent this cablegram to Livy in
Paris last night, to be put on her breakfast plate this
morning (our 24th anniversary), "Wedding news: Our
ship is safe in port. I sail the moment Rogers can
spare me."
Livy's answer this morning is—^ccWe rejoice with you
and congratulate you on your well-earned success."
He had fallen in with the great oil financier,
the elder H. H. Rogers, who had taken a hand in
his affairs. His dream seemed to be coming true.
A thing long expected takes the shape of the unexpected
when at last it comes.
We can secure other people's approval if we do right
and try hard. But our own is worth a hundred of it and
no way has been found out of securing that.
Skips that Pass in the Night. Get two—send one to
Paris.
Drill—that is the valuable thing. Drill—drill—drill-
that is the precious thing. For, from drill comes the auto-
matic, and few things in this world are well done until
they can do themselves. If teachers would but drill—
drill—drill in the language! But God never made a
language-teacher out of a sane person yet. When he can't
get an idiot He won't play.
Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.
It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do
right.
Write Ambassador Wayne MacVeigh—how to stop
bomb-throwing.
Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be
made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man
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