Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.

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

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.

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

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

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

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.