“The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.”

Samuel Clemens was an American writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best known for his satirical novels *The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn* and *The Adventures of Tom Sawyer*, which blend humor with sharp social commentary. His wit and keen observations on human nature remain widely influential.