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."
"I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
"Humor is mankind's greatest blessing."
"Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge."
"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."