Fame compensates for a column of wants.

Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so

power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.

The world changed somewhat in form during its progress, but never in substance.

A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?

the best of all good friends is pride.

The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical, hypocritical, prejudiced, fanatical, cocoa-blooded atavists, who soothe their inferiority complex by barking their hatred of anything new.