Mark Twain

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”

“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.”