“Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.”
I didn't know he wrote poems. Here's one I found at this link.
His advice and a "Poem to Margaret".
This is his daughter.
"Be good, be good, be always good,
And now and then be clever,
But don't you ever be too good,
Nor ever be too clever;
For such as be too awful good
They awful lonely are,
And such as often clever be
Get cut and stung and trodden by persons of lesser mental capacity,
For this kind do by a law of their construction regard exhibitions of
Superior intellectuality as an offensive impertinence leveled at
Their lack of this high gift, and are prompt to resent such-like
Exhibitions in the manner above indicated - and are they justifiable?
Alas, alas they"
and he continues...
"(It is not best to go on; I think the line is already longer than it ought to be for real true poetry.)"
I found more here and the above poem is in public domain.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain (1835-1910), was an American novelist and humorist. Born in Missouri, he suffered ill health as a child and lost his father at the age of 12. A year later, to help keep his family fed, Samuel left school to become a printer's apprentice. He eventually went to work at his brother's newspaper and discovered that he enjoyed, and had a gift, for writing. At 21, Samuel embarked on a career as a steamboat pilot, but the Civil War forced him to head west and, after an unsuccessful attempt at a prospecting career, he went to work as a newspaper reporter and soon carved out a reputation as one of the most entertaining storytellers - in print and in person - around. In the course of his life, Samuel wrote 28 books and innumerable letters, essays and short stories, and is considered one of America's greatest literary icons.
