"...we all know that in all matters..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.”

“The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples — that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at.”

“Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.”

“No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.”

“Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.”

“That queen, of error, whom we call fancy and opinion, is the more deceitful because she does not always deceive. She would be the infallible rule of truth if she were the infallible rule of falsehood; but being only most frequently in error, she gives no evidence of her real quality, for she marks with the same character both that which is true and that which is false.”

“You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.”

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

“Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.”