He says, 'Going to make tracks with 'em, because— "'Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime; And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.'
— from Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910 by Albert Bigelow Paine

He says, 'Going to make tracks with 'em; because— "'Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime; And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.'
— from Chapters from My Autobiography by Mark Twain

In circles where smoking, or field sports, or going to the play, or reading novels, or indulging in any boisterous games or in the most harmless Sunday amusements, are treated as if they were grave moral offences, young men constantly grow up who end by looking on grave moral offences as not worse than these things.
— from The Map of Life Conduct and Character by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

He says, ‘Going to make tracks with ’em; because: “‘Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime; And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.’
— from Mark Twain's Speeches by Mark Twain