"In literature imitations do not imitate...." - Quote by Mark Twain

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

“A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.”

“It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.”

“Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book.”

“No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.”

“Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.”

“When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.”

“We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.”

“I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, - that is genius.”