Mark Twain's Speeches

These Mark Twain speeches will address themselves to the minds and hearts of those who read them, but not with the effect they had with those who heard them; Clemens himself would have said, not with half the effect. I have noted elsewhere how he always held that the actor doubled the value of the author's words; and he was a great actor as well as a great author.

In the words of author William Dean Howells:

These speeches will address themselves to the minds and hearts of those who read the...