No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
I have no confidence in a man whose faults you cannot see.
Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.
So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
Every decision you make is a mistake.
The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.