Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.

Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue

I suppose the human race is doing the best it can but hells bells thats only an explanation its not an excuse.

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.