"Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.”

“Like most people, I often feel mean, and act accordingly.”

“There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.”

“Everything seems stupid when it fails.”

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”

“Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.”

“Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?”

“The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay, all of native fruit which for the most part went to the cider mill. But since the temperance reform and the general introduction of grafted fruit, no wild apples, such as I see everywhere in deserted pastures, and where the woods have grown up among them, are set out. I fear that he who walks over these hills a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples.”

“Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.”