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

- Edward Dahlberg

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

- Edward Dahlberg

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.

- Edward Dahlberg

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…

- Edward Dahlberg

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

- Edward Dahlberg

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

- Edward Dahlberg

It takes a long time to understand nothing.

- Edward Dahlberg

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

- Edward Dahlberg

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

- Edward Dahlberg