"The man who does not read good..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.”

“It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.”

“Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?”

“Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.”

“Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of tension and confusion, writers are beginning to realize that books for children have a greater potential for good or evil than any other form of literature on earth.”

“In those days, when my hands were much employed, I read but little, but the least scraps of paper which lay on the ground, my holder, or tablecloth, afforded me as much entertainment, in fact answered the same purpose as the Iliad.”

“Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day - the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences.”

“We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.”

“Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”