"Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.”

“Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.”

“I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union.”

“The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.”

“It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.”

“Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song: Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.”

“Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.”

“And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.”

“There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist. ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people; and not anywhere else can these be had.”