More quotes by Mark Twain

"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."
"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
"Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."[Mark Twain, a Biography]"
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
"Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream."