It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it.

We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.

It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it.

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.

Evil, which is our companion all our days, is not to be treated as a foe. It is wrong to cocker vice, but we grow narrow and pithless if we are furtive about it, for this is at best a pretense, and the sage knows good and evil are kindred. The worst of men harm others, and the best injure themselves.

Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.