More quotes by Mark Twain

"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."
"Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
"Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident."