Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may s... - Mark Twain

"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."

"The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for."

"Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

"The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell together, as quickly as possible."

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."