Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may s... - Mark Twain
"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
"A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat."
"Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary."
"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."
"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them."