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

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.

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

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

To write is a humiliation.

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.

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.