–about boating and other simple boyhood pleasures
google his essay: Concerning The Jews Mark Twain Harper’s Magazine 1898
“…If statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of stardust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly, the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of… [The Jews’] contributions to the world’s list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to his numbers. He has made a marvelous fight in this world, in all the ages…
The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream–stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed;… and they are gone; other people have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished…
All things are mortal by the Jew; all other forces pass, by he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?”
– Mark Twain