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.
Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself.
Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.
No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.