In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you... - Mark Twain

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

"Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident."

"It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech."

"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."

"Familiarity breeds contempt and children."