More quotes by Mark Twain

"Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge."
"Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else."
"Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects."
"I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead."
"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."