I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man..

I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks..

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

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

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

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

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….

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

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

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

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

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

Every decision you make is a mistake..

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….

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

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

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….

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 ….

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

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..

It takes a long time to understand nothing..