More quotes by Mark Twain

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."
"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
"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."
"It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those 3 unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them."