Mark Twain Quote

In grandchildren I am the richest man that lives to-day: for I select my grandchildren, whereas all other grandfathers have to take them as they come, good, bad, and indifferent.

p. 219, of his "angel-fishes"—girls between the ages of ten and sixteen whom he befriended after the death of his wife - Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 3 (2015)