Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.

One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness.

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

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

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.