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

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.

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

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

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.

Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have not been stroked or praised.