Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it.

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

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 nowise different from one another.

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.