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

I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.

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

Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.

Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places; he is word-sick and place-crazy. He admires strength, but for what? Violence! This is the cult of the frontier mind.

We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers.

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