More quotes by Mark Twain

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."
"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."