I have no confidence in a man whose faults you cannot see..

No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American..

No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple….

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty..

Woman is the most superstitious animal beneath the moon. When a woman has a premonition that Tuesday will be a disaster, to which a man pays no heed,….

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating….

The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper..

Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are ….

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared..

Evil, which is our companion all our days, is not to be treated as a foe. It is wrong to cocker vice, but we grow narrow and pithless if we are furti….

Every decision you make is a mistake..

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue..

The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thi….

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien..

It takes a long time to understand nothing..

Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition..

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking..

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors..

Who has enough credit in this world to pay for his mistakes?.

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels..

The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists..