More quotes by Mark Twain

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."
"I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!"
"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."
"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."
"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure."