"When I want to read something nice,..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house.”

“Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.”

“I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".”

“The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.”

“The written word has this advantage, that it lasts and can await the time when it is allowed to take effect.”

“People had been writing to me and saying, "Can you write something for children?" I felt I couldn't quite do it myself because I never had children.”

“Books are a narcotic.”

“If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they are necessarily better but because they contain precisely those truths of which our own age is neglectful.”

“Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.”