The newspaper has debauched the American until he is a slavish, simpering, and angerless citizen; it has taught him to be a lump mass-man toward fraud, simony, murder, and lunacies more vile than those of Commodus or Caracalla.

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

A man who can be entertaining for a full day will be in his grave by night-fall.

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

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

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

Narcissus never wrote well nor was a friend.